top of page
.png){kind=small}
"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Being quotes
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Explore more quotes by Hector Hugh Munro
"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."
"Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more."
"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them."
"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."
"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."
"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve."
bottom of page