Tag: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

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 (Saki)

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 (Saki)

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

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren’t respectable live beyond other people’s. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

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 (Saki)

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

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

And like every woman who has ever preached repentance to unregenerate youth, she dwelt on the sin of an empty life, which always seems so much more scandalous in the country, where people rise early to see if a new strawberry has happened during the night.

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)