A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. Hector Hugh Munro More Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro More Quotes From Hector Hugh Munro Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent. Hector Hugh Munro paris fashion strong His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect. Hector Hugh Munro fashion losing attention I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly. Hector Hugh Munro moral manners thinking Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes. Hector Hugh Munro infallible female mistake By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine. Hector Hugh Munro max wine purpose You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood. Hector Hugh Munro brevity widowhood soul Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world. Hector Hugh Munro given discovery world There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets. Hector Hugh Munro saint names may I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think. Hector Hugh Munro nice reading mother 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 decay religious people Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion. Hector Hugh Munro pioneers lions christian Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. Hector Hugh Munro whereabouts addresses given The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends. Hector Hugh Munro cat humanity animal I hate babies. They're so human. Hector Hugh Munro hate baby kids No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. Hector Hugh Munro atheism atheist christian But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. Hector Hugh Munro education boys school To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening. Hector Hugh Munro afternoon dining clever The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. Hector Hugh Munro yeats hammocks stories And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless. Hector Hugh Munro vagueness alarms taken Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic? Hector Hugh Munro tears mother may
