Hector Hugh Munro Quotes
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But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
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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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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.
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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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A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.
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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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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
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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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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.
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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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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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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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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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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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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.