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
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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I hate babies. They're so human.
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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.
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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.
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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Romance at short notice was her speciality.
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Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?
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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.