Famous Quotes / Hector Hugh Munro
19 Quotations by Hector Hugh Munro
- 1. A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
- 2. Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
- 3. Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
- 4. Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
- 5. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- 6. He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact th ...
- 7. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
- 8. Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one go ...
- 9. In baiting a mouse trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
- 10. It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
- 11. No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
- 12. No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
- 13. Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
- 14. Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blam ...
- 15. The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
- 16. The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
- 17. We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim ...
- 18. When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, whil ...
- 19. You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, ...