At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

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

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

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

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

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

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.