You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
