Top 33 Dinner Parties Quotes

I just don’t get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

It can be easy to want to host everyone at once, but when it comes to virtual dinner parties – the smaller the group the better.

People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession – it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It’s not good for the economy.

I want more girls’ nights, more dinner parties, more date nights, more nights on the couch with zucchini fries watching bad reality television.

I don’t go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I’m not really human.

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age… pretty dull.

If you have an Ina Garten-level roasted-chicken recipe, it’s a game changer. I bring that to dinner parties and make a lot of friends.

My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.

I don’t do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I’ve cooked for the family.

Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour happens to be peculiarly agreeable.

I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He’s a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.

As a child I’d sit at dinner parties with artists, authors and musicians, some of the best people in their fields. I couldn’t avoid the path I took having grown up in such an artistic environment.

It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.

Bike lanes – I put that now in the category of things you shouldn’t discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

I hate dinner parties, you know, can’t stand them. Friends don’t bother inviting me any more, because they know I won’t come. I could never think of anything to say between courses – it’s a confidence thing, I suppose.

Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.

I just really love having dinner parties and hanging out.

My wife, Nancy, and I like to meet new people, renew old friendships and accept new challenges. At home we like to have small dinner parties. Sundays we have buffet brunches.

At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine in the glass, and it goes very well with the cheese. And that is what they do in France, and I think they set a good example.

If the ’80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the ’90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties – ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.

I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don’t talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They’re the best things in the world – I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I’d wake up in the morning and immediately think, ‘Now what am I doing tonight?’ Now I’d be more likely to reach for a book.

My whole life has been a very communal experience; growing up in a house full of happy hippies, having dinner parties three days a week, and going to Christiania, I was constantly surrounded by people celebrating community. If you look at the films I’ve done, they all share that theme.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

One thing about my dinner parties – they’re never planned. I go to the grocery store, and I buy whatever is on sale. I get a lot of it, and I just send out a mass text: ‘I just bought food. Dinner’s at 8. Text me if you’re coming.’

I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It’s all me.

Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they’ve known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.

I’m an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

I cook a lot. For my friends – I do a lot of dinner parties and stuff.

I don’t have dinner parties – I eat my dinner in bed.

I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.