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.

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

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

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

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

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

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.

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

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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