Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

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  Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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  Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

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

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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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  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.

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  It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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  No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

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  No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

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  Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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  Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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

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  The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

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

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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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  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.