Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

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!

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.

It's stylish to have people over. But unstylish to make them bring food. It's so tacky, making everybody appear at the door with a dish. Better to order in, use a caterer or bring prepared food into your kitchen.

I love to have a dinner party. I love to have people over. I like the feeling it creates in my home - having guests laughing and telling their stories - and I put a lot of thought into it. I plan my menu kind of depending on whatever mood I'm in.

If you have a guy over, and there's a whole bunch of china from your wedding, it's not a good idea.

I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.

I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.

If I host something, even if it's just dinner at my house, I like the event to move. So that means cocktails in the family room, and then moving outside and having appetizers on the patio, and then moving to dinner at the dining table. It's just the idea of the event being curated to every little detail.

Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook?

If we have friends over for dinner, I do the cooking. I like the pressure of a big meal and the technical challenges of a roast.

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.