We’ve collected the best Dinner Party Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Simon Hoggart, Natascha McElhone, Max Boot, Jean Kennedy Smith, Debi Mazar. Use them as an inspiration.
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There is a small group of ‘Never Trump‘ conservatives. But it is a small group, and I’ve actually been surprised that there are not more of us. There’s enough of us for a dinner party, not a political party. I wish there were more.
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My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it’s a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day – go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists’ job in a free society.
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Octavia Spencer rocks. But just as a human being, she‘s so down-to-earth. Talk about being pleasantly surprised. You walk onto set, and she’s making these jokes, and she’s playing around with the cast and the crew, and she invited all to her house for a dinner party. She’s just a genuinely good person.
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At barbecues, people just like to eat a lot of meat; it’s extraordinary. They eat far more than they normally would at a dinner party.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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Once I was hosting an important dinner party at our house – everything was perfect, candles were lit, the house smelled amazing with great food and drinks ready. We lit a fire and the flue wasn’t able to open, unbeknownst to us. We smoked out the entire house and the fire department had to come – it was a mess.
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It’s my own personal hang-up, but I find adults who are picky eaters to be the worst. I don’t mean food allergies or preferences: I mean picky eaters. We all know one, and they’re impossible to go to lunch with or invite over for a dinner party.
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Now, race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party or in a workplace environment, it is literally the conversational equivalent of touching the third rail.
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