Hector Hugh Munro Quotes
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Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
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Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
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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.
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Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.
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Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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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.
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The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.
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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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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.
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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
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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.
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And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
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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.
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
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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.
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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?
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Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.
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Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.
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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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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.
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I hate babies. They're so human.
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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.
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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