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

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

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

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.

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

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

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

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?