Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

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• A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Husband, Cat, Long

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.905, Delphi Classics

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Use, Growing, Way

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

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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

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• Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Home, Together, Poverty

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

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Age, Youth, Young

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton"

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• We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Couple, Politics, Sometimes

  'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)

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• Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Art, Disappointment, Life Is

  "Complete Works of Saki".

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• Women and elephants never forget an injury.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Women, Elephants, Never Forget

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Happiness, Oysters, Unhappy

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

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• I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Moral, Manners

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Children, Sight, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics

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• Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Communism, Born, Made

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Christian, Pioneers, Lions

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.300, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Funny, Children, Cat

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

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Hate, Lasts, Last Words

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

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  World, Way, Easy

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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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beauty, Sin

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

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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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Education, School, Boys

  Reginald in Russia (1910) "The Baker's Dozen"

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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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Life, People, Income

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

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Rooms, Cheese, Mice

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

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• The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Revenge, Long, May

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

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• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Adversity, Cat, Men

  "The Square Egg". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Achievement of the Cat", 1924.

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