A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.