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

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

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.

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

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

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

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

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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