Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Use, Growing, Way

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

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• Un poco de inexactitud a veces ahorra una tonelada de explicaciones.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Divertido, ingenioso, potente

  The Square Egg (1924) "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business"

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• The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Age, Youth, Young

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton"

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• Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Home, Together, Poverty

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics

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• Es una de esas personas que mejorarían enormemente con la muerte.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Divertido, Sarcástico, Ingenioso

  Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) "The Feast of Nemesis"

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Moral, Manners

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

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• The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Gato, Animal, Humanidad

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• A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Husband, Cat, Long

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.905, Delphi Classics

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• We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Couple, Politics, Sometimes

  'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Happiness, Oysters, Unhappy

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• People 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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Children, Sight, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics

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• Las mujeres y los elefantes nunca olvidan una herida.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Women, Elephants, Never Forget

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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• I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Hate, Lasts, Last Words

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

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• Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Art, Disappointment, Life Is

  "Complete Works of Saki".

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• There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  World, Way, Easy

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• Enfrente a un niño, un cachorro y un gatito a un peligro repentino; el niño se volverá instintivamente en busca de ayuda, el cachorro se arrastrará en abyecta sumisión, el gatito preparará su pequeño cuerpo para una resistencia frenética.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Funny, Children, Cat

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.849, Delphi Classics

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• Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Christian, Pioneers, Lions

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.300, Delphi Classics

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• The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Revenge, Long, May

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

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• I always say beauty is only sin deep.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beauty, Sin

  'Reginald' (1904) 'Reginald's Choir Treat'

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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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Childhood, Wish

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Taken, Alarms, Vagueness

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.476, Delphi Classics

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• In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Rooms, Cheese, Mice

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.847, Delphi Classics

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• Nos dan direcciones para ocultar nuestro paradero.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Addresses, Given, Whereabouts

  'Reginald in Russia' (1910) 'Cross Currents'

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• The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  People, Crete

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham"

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• 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

  Birth, Poet, Score

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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