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
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.
children emotion given
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
sin
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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.
happiness oysters unhappy
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
asked friendship sacrifices
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.