It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

Traveling is as subtle as an early morning reverence.

You only get one chance of an England debut.

Jumping jacks are easier to do than crawling jacks.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.

Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.