#dinner party

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#being #brought #chip #dinner #dinner party

I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#because #been #dinner #dinner party #film

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#anything #because #dinner #dinner party #guy

The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#clear #daughter #dimension #dinner #dinner party

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#audience #dinner #dinner party #guests #having

The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter. ↗

— Nubar Gulbenkian

#dam #dinner #dinner party #good #head

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting