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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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

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. 

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.

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

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