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
fashion catholic mind
The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other
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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.
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.
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.
asked friendship sacrifices
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
sin
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
children sight people
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
life people income
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.
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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.