1.
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.
Isabella Beeton
2.
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.
Isabella Beeton
3.
Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
Isabella Beeton
4.
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.
Isabella Beeton
5.
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.
Isabella Beeton
