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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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• Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Angel, Enthusiasm, Return

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald on the Academy"

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• To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  People, Fur, Want

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.157, Read Books Ltd

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• Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Mistake, Female, Infallible

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• I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.428, Delphi Classics

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• On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Horse, Hands, Two

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.442, 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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• 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 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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• You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Soul, Widowhood, Brevity

  "The Chronicles of Clovis". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Match Maker", 1911.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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