A Quote by Isabella Beeton

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Isabella Beeton

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Dine May Must Well

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Isabella Beeton
English - Author
March 12, 1836 - February 6, 1865

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Seth Klarman

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

Henry James

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

Honore de Balzac

Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.

Robert Herrick

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Beverly Sills

I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.

Harold Ford, Jr.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.