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 More Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro More Quotes From Hector Hugh Munro The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. Hector Hugh Munro culinary cooking food Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return. Hector Hugh Munro return angel enthusiasm Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. Hector Hugh Munro hyacinths children knowledge The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other. Hector Hugh Munro catholic fashion mind If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits. Hector Hugh Munro energy games animal He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it. Hector Hugh Munro glory christian facts The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook. Hector Hugh Munro cooking common men Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. Hector Hugh Munro scandal people thinking There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden. Hector Hugh Munro rude kings smoking The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. Hector Hugh Munro revenge may long I always say beauty is only sin deep. Hector Hugh Munro sin beauty All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both. Hector Hugh Munro income life people 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 ought conversation There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way. Hector Hugh Munro easy way world A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Hector Hugh Munro The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. Hector Hugh Munro eyes beautiful friendship long
