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

Hector Hugh Munro

Thinking, People, Scandal

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

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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.

Hector Hugh Munro

Hate, Grateful, Gossip

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

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Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

Hector Hugh Munro

Past, Long, Tailors

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.289, Delphi Classics

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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Hector Hugh Munro

Addresses, Given, Whereabouts

'Reginald in Russia' (1910) 'Cross Currents'

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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.

Hector Hugh Munro

Birth, Poet, Score

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

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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.

Hector Hugh Munro

Hatred, Humanity, Decay

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.474, Delphi Classics

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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Hector Hugh Munro

People, Giving, Charity

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.156, Read Books Ltd

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

Hector Hugh Munro

Drinking, Wife, Mistress

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

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

Hector Hugh Munro

Healing, Tea, Finding Yourself

"The Toys of Peace and Other Papers".

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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.

Hector Hugh Munro

Optimism, Pessimism, Middle

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

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

Hector Hugh Munro

Children, Emotion, Given

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.309, 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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And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

Hector Hugh Munro

Taken, Alarms, Vagueness

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.476, Delphi Classics

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His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

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Fashion, Attention, Losing

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Hector Hugh Munro

People, Crete

Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham"

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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.

Hector Hugh Munro

Food, Wine, Men

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

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It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

Hector Hugh Munro

Home, World, Tents

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Hector Hugh Munro

Believe, Food, Important

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Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

Hector Hugh Munro

Beautiful, Buddhism, Oysters

"The Chronicles of Clovis". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1911.

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Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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Short Notice, Romance

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.547, Delphi Classics

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By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.

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Wine, Max, Purpose

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “The Chronicles of Clovis”, p.57, Read Books Ltd

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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.

Hector Hugh Munro

Beautiful, Buddhism, Thinking

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

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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

Hector Hugh Munro

Philosophy, Sleep, Cat

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics

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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.

Hector Hugh Munro

Kings, Rude, Smoking

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.297, Delphi Classics

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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

Hector Hugh Munro

Food, Cooking, Culinary

Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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