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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
— Hector Hugh Munro
His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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.
— Hector Hugh Munro
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
— Hector Hugh Munro
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
— Hector Hugh Munro
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
— Hector Hugh Munro
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?
— Hector Hugh Munro
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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.
— Hector Hugh Munro
The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
— Hector Hugh Munro
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
— 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.
— Hector Hugh Munro
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends ...
— Hector Hugh Munro
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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.
— Hector Hugh Munro
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
— Hector Hugh Munro
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.
— Hector Hugh Munro
I hate babies. They're so human.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
— Hector Hugh Munro
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
— Hector Hugh Munro
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
— Hector Hugh Munro