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Source: The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: With Illustrations by the Author, and with Introductory Notes Setting Forth the History of the Several Works in Twenty-two Volumes

“A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."”

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Author:James Keller

“There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.”

Life Inspirational Pleasure Equal Speech Dinner

Author:Charles Dudley Warner

“Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.”

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Author:David Auburn

“Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.”

Shows Lasts Hours Pleasure Dinner Show Me

Author:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.”

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“At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.”

Writing Has Beens Felt Water Food Fine Glory Mouths Dare Hearing Dinner Diamond Culmination Truffles

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.”

World Cooking Dinner Cooks Merit

Author:Moliere

“Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.”

Hours Prayer Ten Catholic Dinner One Hour Thanksgiving Dinner

Author:Peter Kreeft

“We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.”

Sides Dark Rooms Half Cases Moon Aspect Dinner Neighbor

Book:Shakespeare the Man: An Essay

Source: Shakespeare the Man: An Essay

“But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.”

Ideas Dinner Clever

Author:Mark Rylance

“It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.”

Knows Comfort Stones Dinner Rings Breakfast Diamond Vulgar Mixtures Precious Stones

Author:Judith Martin

“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”

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Book:The Good Book: A Secular Bible

Source: The Good Book: A Secular Bible

“Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.”

Humans My Friends Dinner Tea Breakfast Lunch

Book:Cautionary Tales for Children

Source: Cautionary Tales for Children

“Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.”

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Author:Hugh Newell Jacobsen

“No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.”

Giving Matter Lost Effort Failing Media Losing Dinner Lunch

Author:Robin Renwick, Baron Renwick of Clifton

“Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.”

“I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.”

Has Beens Reason Opinion Learning Strange Praise Affection Witty Dinner Pleasant Heresy Praise God Audacious

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson

“Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.”

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Author:Wes Smith

“It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.”

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Author:Junot Diaz

“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”