97 Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.

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.