Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Happiness, Humanity, Star

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Taste, Flavor, Enables

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.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Understand, Find, Word

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.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Woman, Nothing, Pretty

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Pain, Become, Far

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Others, Sense, Sensible

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

True, Drunk, Become

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.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Different, Living, Action

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Birth, Languages, Decline

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Air, Hearing, Motion

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Almost, Amateur, Mania

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Body, Number, Infinite

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Sense, Almost, Smell

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Character, Sense, Faithful

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Himself, Places, Senses

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.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Men, Strong, Passion

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Time, Power, Sense

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Human, Different, Rather

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.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Important, Different, Coffee

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.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Human, Found, Though

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Lawyer

Born: April 1, 1755

Died: February 2, 1826

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