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

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

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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