97 Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

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

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

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.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.