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
baby hate kids
I hate babies. They're so human.
taken vagueness alarms
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.
beautiful buddhism thinking
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
people crete
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
food cooking culinary
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
hate lasts last-words
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
age youth young
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
funny witty powerful
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
short-notice romance
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
optimism pessimism middle
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
birth poet certificates
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.
thinking order people
Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.
people fur want
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
soul widowhood brevity
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.