If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. – H. L. Mencken
The LPGA is basically corporate America’s dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They’re not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic. – Hollis Stacy
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half. – Gracie Allen
I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party – that’s a big thing – but I don’t go to parties. I’m social but I’m not a socialite person. – Graydon Carter
I was brought up in a way that when you’re at a dinner party, you don’t grab a chip unless it’s been offered to everyone else. It’s the manners of being brought up by English parents. – Hugh Jackman
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. – Henry Mayhew
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
The best movies have one sentence that they’re exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. – Helen Hunt
There’s nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I’ve got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I’m taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues – a coal, gas and smoker – so I can experiment a lot. – Guy Fieri
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. – Jennifer Granholm
I have a husband and two kids, and they’re usually around when I’m shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that’s what I’m dealing with when I go home. – Julianne Moore
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard
I can’t tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it’s like going to somebody else’s Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you’re there and you’re not quite sure what you’re supposed to be doing. – John Cleese
Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection, it’s ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don’t have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it. – Jeff Bezos
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
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s. – Jet Li
Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else. – Isla Fisher
We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don’t think you should do that. – Ian St. John
We never do Valentine’s dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine’s, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody’s going to say, ‘Did they talk? Did they hold hands?’ Twenty years. We’ve been married twenty years! – Iman
Never let ’em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you’ve worked too hard to make dinner for them – which of course you have! – Ina Garten
If you’re not clipping coupons before going to the grocery store, you’re overspending. If you’re ordering in or going out to dinner because you don’t feel like cooking, you’re overspending. If you’re not tracking where your money is going, you’re very likely overspending. – Jean Chatzky
My diet has definitely become greener; however, I am a big proponent of everything in moderation. I enjoy having a farm-to-table dinner, as well as indulging in a special, decadent treat on occasion. – Ivanka Trump
It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. – John Wanamaker
With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it’s like, give me a break. That’s not a restaurant, that’s a dinner party. – Joe Bastianich
You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine. – Jean Chatzky