Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

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.

Sometimes you go into Nando's, and you want to tuck into the chicken wings with your fingers, but you know someone is watching you, so you don't. I'm sat there thinking, 'If these chicken wings were at home, they would get demolished!' But I've got to use a knife and fork, and you end up saying: 'Could I get a bag to take these home, please?'

I like to eat other people's food in restaurants.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

You should be comfortable eating by yourself or in public.

If you start eating with your mouth open - I can't stand it! I was out to dinner with a girl, and she started chomping on her food. You could see everything she was eating. I was like, 'So when do you want to go home?'

You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty.

Not to be negative, but I think the biggest lesson is don't trust anyone.

I used to trust people easily, but now I'm a little careful because some experiences have taught me to not trust anyone blindly.

I maybe trust too much.

When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

I have learnt this over time, that Peter Jones, you've gotta watch him.

I never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant...because I believe in myself.

Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

The table robbes more then a thiefe.

Do all your eating at a table.