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Letter "H" » H. H. Munro Quotes
«I always say beauty is only sin deep.»
«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»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
everywhere, Her husband, husband, killed, mouse, playing
«The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Elderly,
Youth
| Keywords:
aspirations, reminiscence, reminiscences
«Women and elephants never forget an injury»
«I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.»
«Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abject, assistance, brace, braces, confront, frantic, grovel, groveled, groveling, submission
«He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.»
«All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both»
«A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Explanations
| Keywords:
explanation, inaccuracy, saves, tons
«I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Doing Your Best
| Keywords:
anxious, correctly, desperately, strictly
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