Marco Pierre White Quotes

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

I like the joy when you feed people and they're happy and full and enjoying themselves.

Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

A man can give me a steak, and he's got my attention.

I remember Farooque Sahab would bring volumes of nice food on set for the whole unit. Not just that, he would send sackfuls of mangoes from his farm in Gujarat.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

It's just an American tradition to make sure people don't leave hungry. The worst thing is to have them say, 'Great dinner, but now I have to go get a burger.'

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.