Welcome to our collection of dinner quotes, where we celebrate the joy, warmth, and deliciousness that comes with sharing a meal. Whether it’s a family gathering, a romantic dinner for two, or a feast among friends, the act of coming together around the table is a cherished tradition that spans cultures and generations. From witty quips to heartfelt sentiments, the world of dinner quotes offers a delightful array of insights, reflections, and observations about the culinary experience.
Dinner isn’t just about nourishing our bodies; it’s about feeding our souls, fostering connection, and creating memories that linger long after the plates have been cleared. It’s a time to savor flavors, engage in lively conversation, and bask in the company of loved ones. As we explore the quotes gathered here, may they inspire you to embrace the magic of shared meals and savor every moment spent around the dinner table. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the world of dinner quotes and find the perfect words to complement your next culinary adventure.
Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it’s not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour? Kristin Davis
I don’t think there’s one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner. Ruth Reichl
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time. Craig Brown
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. Mao Zedong
A perfect dinner for me is being with people I really want to be with. It starts and stops with my company and my family. Catherine Bach
I would watch ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political functions like the governor’s birthday ball or mayor’s dinner. Norm Crosby
My mom and dad are great cooks. We ate meals at the dinner table, as a family. Adrienne C. Moore
I like to be able to go out to dinner once in a while. I like to be able to drive my MG up the McKenzie River on a weekday afternoon. I like to be able to pay my bills on time. Steve Prefontaine
When he’s late for dinner, I know he’s either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it’s the street. Jessica Tandy
Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed. Iggy Azalea
Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He’s provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives – not only around the dinner table, but all day long. Phil Robertson
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it. Arnold Schwarzenegger
My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o’clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day. Harold Pinter
I’m quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better. Harry Styles
When I’m doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it’s tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That’s it. For dinner it’s either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring. Sylvester Stallone
The image is where you have dinner at night, who you’re seeing. It’s what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There’s nothing else. Elle Macpherson
I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing. Charles Bukowski
I’m Irish, so I’m used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I’ll call it dinner. Liam Neeson
I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes. Fidel Castro
I am different – if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner! Mario Balotelli
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Joan Didion
I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‘Let me order.’ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‘Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.’ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked. Abby Lee Miller
Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It’s just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can’t sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person’s company if you don’t have the same beliefs. It’s ridiculous. Patricia Heaton
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Robert Louis Stevenson
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ’til you both get your cookie. Alec Baldwin
It is said that love makes the world go ’round – the announcement lacks verification. It’s wind from the dinner horn that does it. O. Henry
I knew medicine only by its absence – specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner. Paul Kalanithi
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it’s more important to make yourself feel good. Ina Garten
I love a good dinner and getting to know someone. Kendall Jenner
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. Marcus Terentius Varro
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it. Frank Muir
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. Earl Derr Biggers
There should be no rules at your dinner party except for people to eat a lot and enjoy a long night where they feel like they could fall asleep at the dinner table at the end. Antoni Porowski
My wife and I had dinner in San Francisco four or five times. Jim Harbaugh
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I can’t be as open on national television as I can when I’m having dinner with friends. But that doesn’t mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same. Matt Lauer
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 weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. Wentworth Miller
I love to cook when I have the time. I don’t cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I’m lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, ‘Let’s go out to dinner.’ Salma Hayek
Don’t ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes. Dale Robertson
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. Erma Bombeck
I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated. Beyonce Knowles
I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that’s what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. Ina Garten
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. Walter Bagehot
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. Jennifer Morrison
Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God. Volodymyr Zelensky
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. Richard Whately
I’ve talked to Bill Clinton – he’s the ultimate rock star; no one’s more charming than him. People clap in a restaurant when he finishes dinner! I don’t get that treatment. I get it when I walk onstage, but not when I have dinner. Jay-Z
In the morning, I always eat fruit and yogurt with cereal. And for lunch and dinner, I always have vegetables as a side. Vittoria Ceretti
We go to church on Sunday and then have family dinner. My mom usually cooks, and most of the time, it’s protein and something else. She will ask us kids what we want! Simone Biles
There is a list of things I’m not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into. Seanan McGuire
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. Ronald Reagan
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham
We always have dinner together as a family – even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited that from my mom, who would come home from her ad agency job to eat with us before going back to work. Kim Raver
And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner. Tom Hanks
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. H. L. Mencken
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. Benjamin Franklin
You don’t enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid. Dennis Skinner
If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive. B. J. Novak
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite’s dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. Francis Quarles
Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table. Bob Ehrlich
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host. Theophrastus
I think I’m telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn’t know he was our coach and I didn’t either. Bear Bryant
I’m very low-key. I don’t really blend in, so it’s difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it’s a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home. Dwayne Johnson
I just like really simple things. If I had been on tour for a while and I got to come back and take my girlfriend Eleanor on a date, we would go to the cinema and then out for dinner. Louis Tomlinson
It’s absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child. Jenny McCarthy
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. Rodney Dangerfield
My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She’s fierce and she’s proud. I’d like to think some of that rubbed off on me. Christopher Judge
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work. Jennifer Lawrence
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. Alfred Hitchcock
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. P. J. O’Rourke
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. Adam Smith
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. Francis Bacon
I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you’re going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it’s also for Wednesday’s dinner. Curtis Stone
I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends. Nelson DeMille
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. Samuel Pepys
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt. Benjamin Franklin
I accidentally met Don Callis in Japan. I was at New Japan and I was with mutual friends, and I met Don on accident and started telling him some of my ideas. We started talking and he basically at dinner was saying, ‘Hey, we should give you a job.’ Scarlett Bordeaux
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent’s birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend’s important anniversary. Mariella Frostrup
When I look back on my childhood, my fondest memories are those surrounding the dinner table. Katie Lee
My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you’d serve a vampire for dinner. Deborah Harkness
When I was growing up, my parents told me, ‘Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.’ I tell my daughters, ‘Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.’ Thomas Friedman
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Tom Wolfe
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. Neil Gaiman
The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn’t dare cry in America. It is unmanly here. Rudolph Valentino
Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes – I have quite a few of them in Ranchi – spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel – that’s my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me. MS Dhoni
For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. Anthony Bourdain
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought. Arthur Bryant
When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, ‘What’s for dinner?’ because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little. Joseph B. Wirthlin
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. David Byrne
I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I’d wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers. Tinie Tempah
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. Gerald R. Ford
When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That’s the price she has to pay. George S. Kaufman
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. George Carlin
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. Marilyn vos Savant
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn’t want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. Maya Lin
The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn’t worth it. In my family, you never knew when dinner was going to be. It could be at 7, or it could be at 10. Ethel Kennedy
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. James Bovard
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. Henny Youngman
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. William Makepeace Thackeray
