This is a paragraph from what I have just read in a book by Lin Yutang. (The Importance of Living)

"There are restaurants for giving grand dinners in a hall with gold-framed mirrors, and there are small restaurants designed for a little drink. All I want is to bring together two or three intimate friends and have a little drink, and not go to the dinners of rich and important people. But the pleasure we have in a small restaurant, eating and drinking and chatting and teasing each other and overturning cups and spilling wine on dresses is something which peopel at the grand dinners don't understand and cannot even "miss.""