The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Quotes
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Thank 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, 1855I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595It 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.
—Adam Smith, 1776What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCTo safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862