Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

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

“Its no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.”

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

“You neednt tell me that a man who doesnt love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. Hes simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”

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

“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.”

“Children with Hyacinths temperament dont know better as they grow older; they merely know more.”

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

“Great Socialist statesmen arent made, theyre still-born.”

“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.”

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