Quote

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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
Sin
Deep
Beauty
Always

More quotes by 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
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
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
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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
Image
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
Find yourself a cup the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
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 cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.
Hector Hugh Munro
Image
The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
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