Hector Hugh Munro Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Sheep Quotes

A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

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I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

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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.

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

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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.

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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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And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

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

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

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

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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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I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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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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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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

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