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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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