No great thing happens suddenly.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.