Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin quotes and sayings (lawyer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”
“The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.”
“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.”
“When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.”
“Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.”
“All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.”
“Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.”
“The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.”
“I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.”
“The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.”
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