Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

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.

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.

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

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.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

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

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.