Hector Hugh Munro Quotes, Wine Quotes, Max Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Wine Quotes , Max Quotes

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Christian Quotes , Pioneers Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Christian Quotes , Facts Quotes

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Discovery Quotes , World Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Kings Quotes , Rude Quotes

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Conversation Quotes

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Hammocks Quotes , Stories Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Optimism Quotes , Pessimism Quotes

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Believe Quotes , Food Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Catholic Quotes

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Moral Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Hate Quotes , Grateful Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Life Quotes , People Quotes

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Hate Quotes , Lasts Quotes

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , People Quotes , Fur Quotes

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Short Notice Quotes

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Female Quotes

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Cat Quotes , Animal Quotes

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Food Quotes , Cooking Quotes