Dining Table Quotes:

People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.

- Michael S. Smith

topic: Beautiful, People, Dining, Upholstery, Dining Table

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

- Virginia Woolf

source: 1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

topic: Love, Food, Sleep, Hunger For Food, Healthy Living

At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.

- Noel Whittaker

topic: Family, Home, Learning, Dining Table

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Inspirational, Clever, Happy New Year, Dining Table, Dinner Guests

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Delicious Food, Stupidest Celebrity

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Food, Men, Thinking, Earnestness, Eating Food

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

- Ephrem the Syrian

topic: Book, Sleep, Night, Mattresses, Dining Table

Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

- Kathy Lette

source: FaceBook post by Kathy Lette from Feb 25, 2013

topic: Funny, Women, Cocky, Dining Table

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

- Boris Johnson

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Opportunity, Thinking, Play, Ping Pong, Dining Table

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

- Edna Ferber

source: Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

topic: Philosophy, Food, Beef, Menus, Dining Table

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

- A. N. Wilson

topic: Dining, Tables, Austen, Dining Table, Jane

Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.

- Clinton Smith

source: Source: www.popsugar.com

topic: Party, Flower, Thinking, Dining Table, Dinner Party

Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns, voices are not raised, much goes unsaid. But just beneath the sophisticated composure are longing, loss, heartbreak. And how intensely familiar is the table itself, which made this reader suddenly understand how much of our real life takes place there. Heather A. Slomski is truly a fresh voice on the scene, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons is that rare thing, a new book as innovative in its design as it is compulsively readable.

- Jaimy Gordon

topic: Real, Book, Character, Dining Table, Rare Things

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

- Jean Paul

topic: Teacher, Character, Mean, One Friend, Dining Table

I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

- Feisal Abdul Rauf

topic: Dad, Father, Lunch, Dining Table

The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and Alexia might do together once he got her home in a properly wedded state, but now those lusty images were mixing with others: waking up next to her, seeing her across the dining table, discussing science and politics, having her advice on points of pack controversy and BUR difficulties. No doubt she would be useful in verbal frays and social machinations, as long as she was on his side.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Home, Ideas, Long, Dining Table

He stared past her to the place at the other end of the dining table where Regina would sit as his wife. If she were here. If he hadn’t driven her away. “I’m not sure I know how to love, Louisa.” She took his hand. “Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.

- Sabrina Jeffries

source: Sabrina Jeffries (2005). “To Pleasure a Prince”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

topic: Silly, Love You, Past, Dining Table

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Knowledge”, p.81, Penguin

topic: Jesus, Coffee, Book, Dining Table