Hector Hugh Munro Quotes, Food Quotes, Childhood Quotes

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.

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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.

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There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

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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.

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

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

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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.

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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

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To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

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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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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.

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I hate babies. They're so human.

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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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