Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

• The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

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

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

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• I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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

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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.

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

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

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• Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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• A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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Hector Hugh Munro (31)

Birth:	18th December, 1870
Death:	14th November, 1916
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki was born in Akyab, British Burma. He was a British author, novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote several novels include: The Chronicles of Clovis, The Unbearable Bassington, and When William Came. He wrote several short stories include: Reginald, Reginald in Russia, The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts, and Gabriel-Ernest. He wrote several plays include: The Watched Pot(with Charles Maude) and The Miracle-Merchant. He wrote other books include: The Rise of the Russian Empire, The Interlopers, The Lumber-Room, The Westminster Alice, and The Un-Rest Cure.

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