97 Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

It's 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.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

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

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.