I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.

Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.