Quotes by Connolly, Cyril

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. >>

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. >>

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office ro >>

Quotations about Vegetarianism

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classe >>

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in >>

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. >>

Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eagerly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale crush me and eat me! -- for us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, tea-plant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton.

Connolly, Cyril