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Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more."

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things."

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.




Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it."

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.




Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts."

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Women and elephants never forget an injury."

Women and elephants never forget an injury.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends."

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.




Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up."

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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 the horse soothingly on the neck."

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 the horse soothingly on the neck.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "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 at all."

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 at all.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people."

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die."

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went."

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse."

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Children are given us to discourage our better emotions."

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it."

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school."

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster."

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "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 let sleep."

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 let sleep.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience."

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve."

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart."

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English."

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent."

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born."

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



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions."

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood."

You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "I hate babies. They're so human."

I hate babies. They're so human.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Romance at short notice was her speciality."

Romance at short notice was her speciality.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other."

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses."

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word."

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world."

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



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country."

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way."

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes."

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook."

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "I always say beauty is only sin deep."

I always say beauty is only sin deep.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought."

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 Quotes: "It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score."

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage."

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly."

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think."

A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories."

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.



Hector Hugh Munro Quotes: "Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?"

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?