Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Mimi Sheraton

romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

I'm too young to be this old.