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. 

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

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

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

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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.

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

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

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