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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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