Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Hector Hugh Munro

Funny, Witty, Powerful

The Square Egg (1924) "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business"

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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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Use, Growing, Way

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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Age, Youth, Young

Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton"

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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Women, Elephants, Never Forget

Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) "The Feast of Nemesis"

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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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Couple, Politics, Sometimes

'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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Home, Together, Poverty

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics

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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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Happiness, Oysters, Unhappy

Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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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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Funny, Children, Cat

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.849, Delphi Classics

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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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Thinking, People, Scandal

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

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Drinking, Wife, Mistress

Reginald in Russia (1910) "A Young Turkish Catastrophe"

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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.

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Life, People, Income

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics

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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

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World, Way, Easy

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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

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Hate, Grateful, Gossip

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.356, Delphi Classics

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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Food, Childhood, Wish

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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Beauty, Sin

'Reginald' (1904) 'Reginald's Choir Treat'

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Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

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Healing, Tea, Finding Yourself

"The Toys of Peace and Other Papers".

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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Children, Emotion, Given

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

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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.

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Optimism, Pessimism, Middle

'Beasts and Super-Beasts' (1914) 'The Byzantine Omelette'

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The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

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Cat, Animal, Humanity

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It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

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Birth, Poet, Score

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

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Rooms, Cheese, Mice

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.847, Delphi Classics

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I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

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Hate, Lasts, Last Words

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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Food, Wine, Men

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

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Clever, Dining, Afternoon

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

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Born: December 18, 1870
Died: November 13, 1916
Occupation: Writer
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