Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

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

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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

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

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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.

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

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

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

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

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

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

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.

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.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.