Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“ The trouble is, the same sort of gentry that don't want to eat meat don't really want to eat anything. The man called a Vegetarian who goes to Ivywood House is generally like a cow trying to live on a blade of grass a day. ”

“ They only know the vegetables that are meant to help the meat. They know you take duck and peas; and when they turn vegetarian they can only think of the peas without the duck. They know you take lobster in a salad; and when they turn vegetarian they can only think of the salad without the lobster. But the other reason is worse. There's plenty of good people even round here, and still more in the north, who get meat very seldom. ”

“ But he said I couldn't speak, And he bowled me to the Beak, Because I was a Happy Vegetarian." "I really think something instructive to the human race may come out of all this . . . Hullo! Is that what you were looking for?"
The quadruped Quoodle came in out of the woods a whole minute later than the usual time and took his seat beside Humphrey's left foot with a preoccupied air.
"Good old boy," said the Captain. "You seem to have taken quite a fancy to us. I doubt, Hump, if he's properly looked after up at the house. I particularly don't want to talk against Ivywood, Hump. ”

“ And so he could never understand the animal side of a man. He doesn't know to this day, Hump, that your sight and hearing are sixty times quicker than his. He doesn't know that I have a better circulation. ”

“ And every truth a man has found out as a man of science is always subtly different from any truth he has found out as a man, because a man's family, friends, habits and social type have always got well under way before he has thoroughly learned the theory of anything. ”

“ So a man like Pump was no more afraid of a fungus as such than he was of an animal as such. He no more started with the supposition that a grey or purple growth on a stone must be a poisonous growth than he started with the supposition that the dog who came to him out of the wood must be a mad dog. ”

“ And he began to bellow another and older lyric of his own on vegetarianism.
"Nebuchadnezzar, the King of the Jews, Suffered from new and original views, He crawled on his hands and knees it's said, With grass in his mouth and a crown on his head, With a wowtyiddly, etc. "Those in traditional paths that trod, Thought the thing was a curse from God; But a Pioneer men always abuse, Like Nebuchadnezzar the King of the Jews." Dalroy, as he sang this, actually began to dance about like a ballet girl, an enormous and ridiculous figure in the sunlight, waving the wooden sign around his head. ”