HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
I'm a man more dined against than dining.
I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.
To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
I have wined and dined with kings and queens and I’ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans.
I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
