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Atheism
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Charity
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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.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Christianity
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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Communism
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Food
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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.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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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.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Friends
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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Happiness
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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Knowledge
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Manners
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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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People
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Politics
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Poverty
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Service
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Shame
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Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Wealth
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No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
-Hector Hugh Munro
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Books by and about Hector Hugh Munro