The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.