Hector Hugh Munro Quotes
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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
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Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
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Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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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.
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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.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
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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.
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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
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Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
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I hate babies. They're so human.
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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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.
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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.