Hector Hugh Munro
» Atheism » “No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.”
» Behavior » “It’s no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.”
» Christians and Christianity » “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.”
» Food and Eating » “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.”
» Food and Eating » “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.”
» Giving » “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.”
» Happiness » “He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”
» Knowledge » “Children with Hyacinth’s temperament don’t know better as they grow older; they merely know more.”
» People » “He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”
» Politicians and Politics » “We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.”
» Poverty and The Poor » “Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.”
» Riches » “No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.”
» Scandal » “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.”
» Servants » “The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.”
» Socializing and Socialism » “Great Socialist statesmen aren’t made, they’re still-born.”
