Sunday dinner

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

~Thomas Jefferson





The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

~Bryan Miller





One can say everything best over a meal.

~ George Eliot






At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well. And talk well but not too wisely.

~W. Somerset Maugham





Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

~Voltaire