97 Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

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

Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out “under orders” from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

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

Never be a pioneer. It’s the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

I hate babies. They’re so human.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats’s poems, but her family denied both stories.

His socks compelled one’s attention without losing one’s respect.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn’t any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one’s own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.