1870-1916, British Novelist, Writer
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Knowledge]
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Socializing and Socialism]
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Hector Hugh Munro – [People]
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 – [Christians and Christianity]
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Happiness]
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 – [Food and Eating]
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Behavior]
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Atheism]
No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Riches]
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Poverty and The Poor]
Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Scandal]
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Servants]
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Friends and Friendship]
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Politicians and Politics]
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.
Hector Hugh Munro – [Giving]
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 – [Food and Eating]