Quotations From [H.H. (HECTOR HUGH) MUNRO] SAKI

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• 1.

  No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

  [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Lady Caroline, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 7 (1912).
• 2.

  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.

  [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. The Archdeacon, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912). Said of De la Poulett; real name is H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro.
  
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• 3.

  Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

  [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. The Baroness, in "Esmé," The Chronicles of Clovis (1911).
  
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• 4.

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

  [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. "Hyacinth," The Toys of Peace (1919).
  
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• 5.

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

  [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Lady Caroline, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912).
  
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• 6.

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

  [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Beasts and Super-Beasts, "Fur." Pseudonym oh Hector Hugh Munro.
  
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• 7.

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

  [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. Courtenay Youghal, in The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912).
• 8.

  A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

  [H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business," The Square Egg (1924).
  
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