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
healing tea finding-yourself
Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
hammocks stories yeats
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
short-notice romance
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
communism born made
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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.
addresses given whereabouts
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
mistake female infallible
Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
discovery world given
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
optimism pessimism middle
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
kings smoking rude
There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.
cheese rooms mice
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.