Quotes by Hector Munro

• He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
• It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
• I always say beauty is only sin deep.
• 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.
• No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
• 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.
• Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
• The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
• Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
• A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
• The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
• 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.
• Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.