dine quotes

Sir Christopher Wren said,'I am going to dine with some men. If anybody calls Say I am designing St Paul's.'

- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  Biography for Beginners,'Sir Christopher Wren'.

If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.

- Douglas William Jerrold
Quoted in Blanchard Jerrold  The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold (1859), ch.14.

The place where bulls and foxes dine very well, but lambs end up head down on the hook.

-Ward Swift Just
  Of Chicago.  Jack Gance.

He showed me his bill of fare to tempt me to dine with him; poh, said I, I value not your bill of fare, give me your bill of company.

-Jonathan Swift
Journal to Stella, 2 Sep.

We cannot have heroes to dine with us. There are none. And were those heroes to be had, we should not like them†the persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, becausetheyare so good.

- Anthony Trollope
  Of Frank Greystock.The Eustace Diamonds, ch.35.