Hector Hugh Munro
Hector Hugh Munro
Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 December 1870
home world tents
It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.
mistake female infallible
Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
past long tailors
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.
book sophie conviction
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
sarcastic blessing trying
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
fashion strong paris
Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.
thinking pigs sheep
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.
mother nice reading
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.
hammocks stories yeats
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
healing tea finding-yourself
Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
clever afternoon evening
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
funny children cat
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.
christian atheist left
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
home together poverty
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.