Quotes on Dinner Party

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

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

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

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.