In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.