Nikolai Gogol Quotes

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people.

If you're coming to dinner at our house, you know you're gonna be well-fed.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.

What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!

People are like, 'Was it fun? Did you eat lots of cake?'

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that it comes when something's over, and there's nothing more to worry about, and to-morrow seems a long way off.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

I'm on a 24 hour champagne diet. Spillin while I'm sippin I encourage you to try it.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

love iz a big fat turkey and every day iz thanksgiving

It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.