Top 60 Hector Hugh Munro Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

2. “Women and elephants never forget an injury.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

5. “The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

6. “It’s no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

7. “A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

8. “I always say beauty is only sin deep.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

9. “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

10. “Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

11. “I hate posterity – it’s so fond of having the last word.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

12. “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.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

13. “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.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

14. “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.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

15. “Children with Hyacinth’s temperament don’t know better as they grow older; they merely know more.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

16. “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

17. “Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

20. “Romance at short notice was her speciality.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

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21. “I hate babies. They’re so human.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

22. “Never be a pioneer. It’s the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.”

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23. “People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

24. “His socks compelled one’s attention without losing one’s respect.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

25. “Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

26. “The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats’s poems, but her family denied both stories.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

28. “To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn’t any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

29. “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

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

31. “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.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

32. “Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

33. “To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

34. “Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

36. “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

37. “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

38. “There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one’s own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

39. “But, good gracious, you’ve got to educate him first. You can’t expect a boy to be vicious till he’s been to a good school.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

40. “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

41. “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

42. “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.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

43. “Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

44. “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.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

45. “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

46. “If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

47. “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.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

48. “No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

49. “He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

— Hector Hugh Munro