What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

’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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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