Hector Hugh Munro Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#World

“A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Conversation

“There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Hatred #Humanity #Energy

“There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#World #Way #Easy

“In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Rooms #Cheese #Mice

“Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Thinking #People #Blazing

“He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Happiness #Unhappy #Instinct

“On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Horse #Hands #Two

“Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Drinking #Wife #Mistress

“I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Believe #Important #Soup

“I always say beauty is only sin deep.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Sin

“Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Children #Emotion #Given

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

#Revenge #Long #May

“There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Saint #Medieval #Disillusionment

“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.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Birth #Poet #Chiefs

“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.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Mother #Nice #Reading

“A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Thinking #Sheep #Pigs

“Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Hate #Grateful #Gossip

“I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Sarcastic #Blessing #Trying

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

#Communism #Born #Made

“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

#People #Giving #Charity

“Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Art #Disappointment #Life Is

“The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Adversity #Cat #Men

“He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Philosophy #Sleep #Cat

“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Witty #Powerful #Humorous

“Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Mother #Tears #May

“I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Beautiful #Buddhism #Thinking

“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Age #Youth #Young

“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Sarcastic #Witty #Powerful

“I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.”
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Hate #Lasts #Last Words