“ You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your r… Meljean Brook
“ However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments: real presences, under particular signs, of the happier order that faith can discover under… Robert Farrar Capon
“ The first dinner-party of a bride's career is a momentous occasion, entailing a world of small anxieties. The accomplishments which have won her acclaim in the three years since she left the schoolroo… Susanna Clarke
“ She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone. Lawren Leo
“ Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company. Marcel Proust
“ If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties. Oscar Wilde
