The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

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.

Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!

Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.

The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.

C" is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

I'm fast for a middleweight - I have middleweight speed.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

God gave me both a brain and a body, and I shall use them both.

I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.