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
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.
religious people decay
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
giving people charity
When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
people crete
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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.
thinking people scandal
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
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.
christian facts glory
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.
use growing way
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
addresses given whereabouts
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
christian lions pioneers
Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.