Hector Hugh MunroI believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.361LifeReflectionTruth
Hector Hugh MunroHe 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. ✨ Saki… ▶363LifeTruth
Hector Hugh MunroPeople talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (201… ▶333Humanity
Hector Hugh MunroThe cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.291Sadness
Hector Hugh MunroPoverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated), p.387, Delphi Classics379Sadness
Hector Hugh MunroThe revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). Delphi Complete W… ▶335Time
Hector Hugh MunroNo one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustra… ▶292Truth
Hector Hugh MunroRomance at short notice was her speciality. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated), p.547, Delphi Classics348Love
Hector Hugh MunroThe man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated), p.583, De… ▶3610Reading
Hector Hugh MunroAll decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (… ▶272Humanity
Hector Hugh MunroI hate babies. They're so human. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated), p.961, Delphi Classics3510Humanity
Hector Hugh MunroThere is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.316Politics
Hector Hugh MunroEvery reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return. ✨ Reginald (1904) Reginald on the… ▶328Death
Hector Hugh MunroThere 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 fo… ▶306Humor
Hector Hugh MunroChildren are given us to discourage our better emotions. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated), p.309, Delphi Classics3410Reading
Hector Hugh MunroThere 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 oth… ▶273Humanity
Hector Hugh MunroI 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 perfectl… ▶3310ThoughtTime
Hector Hugh MunroThe 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. 242ReadingThought
Hector Hugh MunroWe all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart. ✨ 'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)265TimeTruth
Hector Hugh MunroA little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. ✨ The Square Egg (1924) Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business3110LoveTime
Hector Hugh MunroWomen and elephants never forget an injury. ✨ Reginald (1904) Reginald on Besetting Sins255Time
Hector Hugh MunroThe people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. ✨ Chronicles of Clovis (1911) The Jesting of Arlington Stringham288Humanity
Hector Hugh MunroA beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh… ▶222LifeThoughtTime
Hector Hugh MunroAnd the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless. ✨ Saki, H… ▶2910Philosophy
Hector Hugh MunroConfront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace i… ▶212Life
Hector Hugh MunroMonogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. ✨ Reginald in Russia (1910) A Young Turkish Catastrophe289Love
Hector Hugh MunroHe is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. ✨ Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) The Feast of Nemesis212DeathHumanity
Hector Hugh MunroThe young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. ✨ Reginald (1904) Reginald at the Carlton268Politics
Hector Hugh MunroTo be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening. ✨ Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated), p.294, Delphi … ▶236Truth
Hector Hugh MunroThe cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. ✨ Reginald (1904) Reginald on Besetting Sins203Politics
