Famous quotes containing the words banquet and/or scene:
“Another said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 14:20.
Jesus, recounting banquet excuses.
“We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life’s routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse rate, and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)