Hector Hugh Munro Quotes, Past Quotes, Long Quotes

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.

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The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

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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.

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There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

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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.

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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

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

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

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Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

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I hate babies. They're so human.

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