Dining Companions Quotes

Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli. But I can't remember what I said to Alison that night that made her laugh so hard. But she got me right away and I got her right away.

Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

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.

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.