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
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I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
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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.
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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.
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Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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Romance at short notice was her speciality.
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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 is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.