Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

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.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.

Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Ah, sarcasm. The final refuge of the desperate.

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

We can't be French and Muslim at the same time. And that's exactly what ISIS wants that population to think.

No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.