At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Quotes
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCTo safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900We 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.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BC