List of Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 75 inspiring quotes by Hector Hugh Munro.

About Hector Hugh Munro

  • Born: December 18, 1870
  • Died: November 13, 1916
  • Occupation: Writer
    • It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
    Country Average Ordinary
    People may say what they like about the decay of christianity the religious system that produced green chartreuse can never really die.
    Religious People Decay
    There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. for instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the continent. it always turns out to be the king of sweden.
    Kings Rude Smoking
    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 i like to think of him reading them, with fitzgerald's notes, to his aged mother. lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, i think.
    Mother Nice Reading
    Great socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
    Communism Born Made
    The man is a common murderer. a common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
    Men Cooking Common
    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.
    Christian Facts Glory
    I hate babies. they're so human.
    Baby Hate Kids
    A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
    Conversation Ought
    If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. i never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.
    Animal Games Energy
    Children with hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
    Children Knowledge Hyacinths
    You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
    Soul Widowhood Brevity
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