Quote

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

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
Way
World
Neither
Easy
Everything
Hard

More quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

Image
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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
By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
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.
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
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.
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
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