Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

Like a feather in the air, like a leaf in the sea, I surrender to Thee, I surrender to Thee.

A truly happy person is he who is happy without any reason.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

I'm interested in villainy.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.