“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
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A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat — it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older — as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.”
A Scrap Book (London: Macmillan, 1922) p. 31
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