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.

’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.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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

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

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

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

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

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