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• A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Sheep, Pigs

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• Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Fashion, Strong, Paris

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

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• Romance at short notice was her speciality.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Short Notice, Romance

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

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• No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Christian, Atheist, Atheism

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.97, 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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• The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Fashion, Catholic, Mind

  "Reginald". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1904.

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• There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Names, May, Saint

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Wine, Max, Purpose

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

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• Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Order, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Mother, Tears, May

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.298, Delphi Classics

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• The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Hammocks, Stories, Yeats

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

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• Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Discovery, World, Given

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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• I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Mother, Nice, Reading

  "Reginald". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "Reginald on Christmas Presents", 1904.

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• The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Men, Cooking, Common

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.583, Delphi Classics

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• Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Children, Knowledge, Hyacinths

  'Toys of Peace and Other Papers' (1919) 'Hyacinth'

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• If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Animal, Games, Energy

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Conversation, Ought

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Christian, Facts, Glory

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

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• I hate babies. They're so human.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Baby, Hate, Kids

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.961, 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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• Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Book, Sophie, Conviction

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.601, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Religious, People, Decay

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.293, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Country, Average, Ordinary

  "Reginald". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1904.

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