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Hector Hugh Munro
British
Novelist
About the author
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist
#Being
#Instinct
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist
#Deep
#Beauty
#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,
British
Novelist
#Interest
#Childhood
#Wishes
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist
#Nothing
#Christian
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,
British
Novelist
#Life
#Christianity
#Fact
#Glory
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist
#Children
#Temperament
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist
#Old
#Aspirations
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist
#Eyes
#Friendship
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,
British
Novelist
#Love
#Being
#Man
#Instinct
#Soul
#Oysters
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
Hector Hugh Munro,
British
Novelist