“ The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Society is composed of two great classes — those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ”
- Chamfort- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.8K
“ One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. ”
- Clifford Odets- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors and then retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. ”
- Adriaan Kortlandt- Copy
- 3K
“ A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward. ”
- Earl of Chesterfield- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Be of good comfort brother; for we shall have a merry supper with the Lord tonight! ”
- John Bradford- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If ever I ate a good supper at night, I dreamed of the devil, and waked in a fright. ”
- Christopher Anstey- Copy
- 3.8K
“ This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 1.4K
“ People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably — why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work — for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good? ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.1K
“ When they were all tired of blind-man's buff, there was a great game at snap-dragon, and when fingers enough were burned with that, and all the raisins were gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing lags to a substantial supper, and a mighty bowl of wassail, something smaller than an ordinary wash-house copper, in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling with a rich look, and a jolly sound, that were perfectly irresistible. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot? ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ After I realized that I wasn't going to get any acting work, I thought I would try nightclubs. And I got hired immediately at a very fancy supper club. But three nights later I was let go. The manager told me that I was so tall, so imposing, so obviously in charge that nobody was going to believe me… so he said I should try comedy… and I've been hooked ever since. ”
- Beatrice Arthur- Copy
- 1.9K
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