Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

Hector Hugh Munro

British Novelist, Writer

Lived from: 1870 - 1916

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 18 december 1870 Died: 13 november 1916

  • 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.
  • Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
  • 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.
  • We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
  • 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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  • 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.
    ― Hector Hugh Munro
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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.
    ― Hector Hugh Munro
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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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Hector Hugh Munro?

The two most famous quotes from Hector Hugh Munro are:

  • "Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more."
  • "Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born."

When did Hector Hugh Munro live?

Hector Hugh Munro was born in 1870 and died in the year 1916.