Facts about Hector Hugh Munro
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Hector Hugh Munro was a famous Novelist from United Kingdom, who lived between December 18, 1870 and November 14, 1916.
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He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 13 quotes who is written / told by Hector.
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Famous quotes by Hector Hugh Munro (13)
"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened"
"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"
"Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born"
"Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more"
"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve"
"Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres"
"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"
"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them"
"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed"
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation"
"I always say beauty is only sin deep"
"Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts"
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