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
couple sometimes ministers
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
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.
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.
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.
country average taste
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
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
children emotion given
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
revenge long may
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.