Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

Most popular Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

I always say beauty is only sin deep. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
— Hector Hugh Munro

beauty

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
— Hector Hugh Munro The Square Egg

lies accuracy white lies

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
— Hector Hugh Munro

lying

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
— Hector Hugh Munro

witty insults

You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
— Hector Hugh Munro

school

Hostesses regarded her philosophically as a form of social measles which everyone had to have once. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
Hostesses regarded her philosophically as a form of social measles which everyone had to have once.
— Hector Hugh Munro The Unbearable Bassington

guests

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.
— Hector Hugh Munro The Unbearable Bassington

truth

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 quote.
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 The Unbearable Bassington

Christianity

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
— Hector Hugh Munro The Complete Saki

cats

There are two manners of receiving recognition: one is to be discovered so long after one's death that one's grandchildren have to write to the papers to establish the relationship; the other is to be discovered, like the infant Moses, at the very outset of one's career. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
There are two manners of receiving recognition: one is to be discovered so long after one's death that one's grandchildren have to write to the papers to establish the relationship; the other is to be discovered, like the infant Moses, at the very outset of one's career.
— Hector Hugh Munro The Unbearable Bassington

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