“My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Source: A Civil Campaign
Chapter 2 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch02.htm, originally published in Report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm (March 1927), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 28.<br> https://www.marxists.org/chinese/big5/nonmarxists/mao/19270300.htm.湖南農民運動考察報告 <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book) <br class="br">Context: A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
“My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Source: A Civil Campaign
“I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them.”
Dermot Healy (1947–2014) Irish writer
Small talk: Dermot Healy, 2011
“The dying process begins the minute you are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.”
Carol Grace (1924–2003) American actress
As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 80
“If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Unidentified page
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
Kim Il-sung (1912–1994) President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Source: " On eliminating dogmatism and formalism and establishing Juche in ideological work http://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm" (28 December 1955)
Nigel Slater (1958) English food writer, journalist and broadcaster
The Guardian, London, In this month's OFM, Nigel, Slater, 2005-11-13, 2010-05-20 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,,1637598,00.html,
Kim Jong-il book On the Juche Idea
On the Juche Idea, treatise submitted to the National Seminar on the Juche Idea (31 March 1982)