Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

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

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

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly

I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.