“To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.”
“To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”
“There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my friend, is dining.”
“There is something about a Martini,Ere the dining and dancing begin,And to tell you the truth,It is not the vermouth--I think that perhaps it's the gin." --Ogden Nash”
“In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is unusual to offer both.”
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”