Hector Hugh Munro People Quotations

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

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.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.