Hector Munro Quotes

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

"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."

"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."

"No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them."

"Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up."

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