Quote

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Hector Hugh Munro

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hector Hugh Munro
Age: 45 †
Born: 1870
Born: December 18
Died: 1916
Died: November 13
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Akyab
Hector Hugh Morro
H. H. Morro
Elephants
Injury
Forget
Women
Never

More quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

Image
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
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
Image
On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
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.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
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.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
Hector Hugh Munro