All Hector Hugh Munro Quotes
- No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. Apologists
- Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. Break
- I hate babies. They're so human. Babies
- It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live… Aged
- Women and elephants never forget an injury. Elephants
- The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends... Cat
- He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and… Cat
- 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 it… Adversity
- I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience. Believe
- Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. Any
- On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting… Clutching
- He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Developed
- Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. Blameless
- In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. Always Leave
- There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way. Easy
- There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task… Alike
- A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. Annihilate
- I always say beauty is only sin deep. Always Say
- Children are given us to discourage our better emotions. Better
- The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. Arrives