97 Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

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.

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

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

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.