Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

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

"I always say beauty is only sin deep."
- Hector Hugh Munro
(Related: Beauty, Deep, Sin)

"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
(Related: Childhood, Interest, Wishes)

"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve."
- Hector Hugh Munro
(Related: Christian, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Life, Christianity, Fact, Glory)

"Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more."
- Hector Hugh Munro
(Related: Children, Temperament)

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
- Hector Hugh Munro
(Related: Aspirations, Old)

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

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
- 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
(Related: Friendship, Eyes)

"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
(Related: Love, Soul, Being, Instinct, Man, Oysters)

"Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts."
- Hector Hugh Munro