The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

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.

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

The human heart is like the reflection on the water's surface. The mouth says things opposite to what the heart really feels.

I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

Every war has turning points and every person too.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.