Meal Etiquette Quotes

Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

I understand compliance and I understand the rules. Any meal, I wouldn't pay for everybody but I would at least pay my end.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

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.

If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.