This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 5 Aug. 1763 (1791).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.