Hector Hugh Munro quotes
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
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.