You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
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… — 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
