Hector Hugh Munro Quotations

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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.

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.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

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

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.