Quotes by Saki

About Saki:

Hector Hugh Munro is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
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There 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 other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in ...

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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.

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Miles away, down through an opening in the hills, he could catch glimpses of a road where motor-cars sometimes passed, and yet here, so removed from the arteries of the latest civilization, was a bat-haunted old homestead, where something unmistakabl...

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I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice. 'It's her own funeral, you know,' said Sir Lulworth; 'it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains....

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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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

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Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

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It follows that they never understood Reginald, who came down late to breakfast, and nibbled toast, and said disrespectful things about the universe. The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast.

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This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

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

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Confront 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 its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

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

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I 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 perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to ent...

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Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

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Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

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Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking so. However, as we gave up witchcraft prosecutions ab...

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Author Bio

  • NameSaki
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • AliasesHector Hugh Munro; H. H. Munro
  • BornDecember 18, 1870
  • DiedNovember 13, 1916
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Historian; Novelist; Playwright