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The table kills more people than war does.
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
I'm a man more dined against than dining.
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at ano ...
Dining-out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends ...
Conversation did not flow with the drink; it drowned in it.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking ...
The best number for a dinner party is two--myself and a dam' good head waiter.
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
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