waiter quotes

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-downpatoiswhichissomething likethewaya Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive,God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

- Raymond Chandler
  Letter to Edward Weeks at  Atlantic Monthly,18  Jan.

The best number fora dinner party istwomyself and a damn good head waiter.

- Nubar Sarkis Gulbenkian
  In the Daily  Telegraph,14  Jan.

   A diplomat these days isnothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

- Sir PeterAlexander Ustinov
  Romanoff andJuliet.