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Hector Hugh Munro, popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
“We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.”
“The 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.”
“Women and elephants never forget an injury.”
“Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.”
“His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.”
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
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