Top 60 Hector Hugh Munro Quotes (2024 Update)
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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “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.”

51. “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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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.”

52. “Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.”

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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.”

53. “It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

54. “Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?”

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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.”

55. “It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.”

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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.”

56. “It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.”

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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.”

57. “Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.”

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

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

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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.”

59. “You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.”

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

60. “Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.”

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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “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.”

61. “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.”

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

62. “Great Socialist statesmen aren’t made, they’re still-born.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “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.”

63. “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.”

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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “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.”

64. “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

Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “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.”

65. “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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Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “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.”

66. “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

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

67. “The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

Hector Hugh Munro Quote: “The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.”

68. “The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

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