97 Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

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.

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.

You needn’t tell me that a man who doesn’t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

I hate posterity – it’s so fond of having the last word.