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Dinner Quotes

Dinner, memory, and the rituals around the table.

One quote recalls watching 'Monty Python' as a family ritual during dinner, while another admits preferring a quiet dinner and a game of Scrabble over a night out at bars or clubs. See Evening quotes for related themes.

My mom and dad are great cooks. We ate meals at the dinner table, as a family.

Quotes by Adrienne C. Moore

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

Quotes by Adriana Trigiani

If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.

Quotes by Adriana Lima

I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

Quotes by Adam West

Birthday Quotes

Crummy pictures, live appearances, circuses, avant garde theater, dinner theater. I've done it all. I've been shot out of cannons. I know what the people want. I'm out there with the people.

Quotes by Adam West

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Quotes by Adam Smith

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

Quotes by Adam McKay

I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

Quotes by Ziggy Marley

Children Quotes

I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Quotes by Yunjin Kim

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

Quotes by Yara Shahidi

I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades parties. I'm so good at breaking stuff down into syllables and sounds. If I were to be doing anything else besides being an...

Quotes by Wilson Bethel

But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

Quotes by Wes Bentley

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole...

Quotes by Wentworth Miller

Evening Quotes

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

Quotes by Ward McAllister

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Quotes by Walter Bagehot

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

In the morning, I always eat fruit and yogurt with cereal. And for lunch and dinner, I always have vegetables as a side.

Quotes by Vittoria Ceretti

The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

Quotes by Ving Rhames

Family Quotes

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to...

Quotes by Verne Troyer

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the tone of these "Dinner" quotes — practical or humorous?
Mostly warm and a little funny — nostalgic family memories, low-key preferences for a quiet night in, and one deliberately over-the-top joke about dinner etiquette.
Is there a childhood memory involving dinner in this collection?
Yes: "as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!" — a specific, fond family TV memory.
What's the joke about dinner invitations?
"A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend." It's a comically exaggerated way of stressing how seriously some people take RSVPs.
Is there a quote about preferring a quiet night over going out?
Yes — someone describes not being "particularly comfortable in bars or clubs" and instead preferring "having dinner with a couple friends," or other low-key plans.
Is there a quote that compares music to dinner?
One does, metaphorically: "The music I do is food... that will be your dinner." Family quotes and Evening quotes pair well with this theme too.

There's also a wry, old-fashioned rule holding that accepting a dinner invitation is so binding your executor must honor it even if you don't survive to attend. Browse Children quotes and Dinner Prayers for more on the dinner table.