I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

When dinner is over, it won't be her bones on the table.

It was a pity she couldn't do justice to the meal, which featured Scottish salmon, steaming roast joints, venison haunch accompanied by sausages and sweetbreads, and elaborate vegetable casseroles dressed with cream and butter and truffles. For dessert there were platters of luxury fruits; raspberries, nectarines, cherries, peaches and pineapples, as well as a surfeit of cakes, tarts, and syllabubs.