Achieve Quote by Hector Hugh Munro

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

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

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

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

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

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

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

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

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

— Hector Hugh Munro