Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

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

Great, Socialist, Statesmen

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

Life, True, Fact

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
Hector Hugh Munro

Through, Next, Rest

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

Love, Good, Soul

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

Sometimes, Inaccuracy, Saves

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

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

Children, Older, Grow

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro

Unhappy, Simply, Instinct

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

Beauty, Deep, Sin

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

Yourself, Learn, Older

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
Hector Hugh Munro

Nothing, Christian, Left

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Hector Hugh Munro

Friendship, Beautiful, Long

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Hector Hugh Munro

Young, Old, Happened

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Biography

Nationality: British

Born: December 18, 1870

Died: November 14, 1916

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