People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die. Hector Hugh Munro More Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro More Quotes From Hector Hugh Munro He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Hector Hugh Munro oystersunhappyhappiness Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. Hector Hugh Munro catfunnychildren The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. Hector Hugh Munro youthageyoung A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. Hector Hugh Munro powerfulwittyfunny Women and elephants never forget an injury. Hector Hugh Munro womennever-forgetelephants Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. Hector Hugh Munro povertytogetherhome It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. Hector Hugh Munro growinguseway In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. Hector Hugh Munro micecheeserooms Children are given us to discourage our better emotions. Hector Hugh Munro givenemotionchildren Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well. Hector Hugh Munro gossipgratefulhate It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all. Hector Hugh Munro pessimismoptimismmiddle He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. Hector Hugh Munro sarcasticwittyfunny We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart. Hector Hugh Munro politicscouplesometimes Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. Hector Hugh Munro childhoodwishfood I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. Hector Hugh Munro buddhismbeautifulthinking Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. Hector Hugh Munro oystersbuddhismbeautiful Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Hector Hugh Munro finding-yourselfhealingtea It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score. Hector Hugh Munro scorebirthpoet You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Hector Hugh Munro winefoodmen There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay. Hector Hugh Munro decayhatredhumanity
