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

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

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

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

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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

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

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.

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. 

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

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.

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