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
conversation ought
A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
hatred humanity tasks
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.
way world easy
There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
cheese rooms mice
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
thinking people scandal
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
happiness oysters unhappy
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
horse hands two
On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.
drinking wife mistress
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
cat suits kitten
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends...
adversity cat men
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.
philosophy sleep cat
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.
hate grateful gossip
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
food childhood wish
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
education school boys
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.