“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
Source: A Civil Campaign
“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
“A revolution is not a dinner party”
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
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.
“I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them.”
Dermot Healy (1947–2014) Irish writer
Small talk: Dermot Healy, 2011
Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
Get the Party Started, written by Linda Perry
Song lyrics, Missundaztood (2001)
“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
“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)
Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer
"Break the Chains" (song), with Rationale (Tinashé Fazakerley) <br class="br"> ("Break the Chains" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvosF7mbrnE <br class="br">Studio albums, Some Nights Last for Days (2020)
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Lucky in Love