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Munro, Hector Hugh, dit Saki, né le 18 décembre 1870 à Akyab, en Birmanie, mort au combat le 13 novembre 1916 à Beaumont-Hamel, dans la Somme en France, est un auteur britannique. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. décembre 1870 – 13. novembre 1916
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Saki: Citations en anglais

“All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.”

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Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

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

“You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”

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Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

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

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

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"Reginald on Worries"
Reginald (1904)

“A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.”

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Saki livre Beasts and Super-Beasts

"The Blind Spot"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“Madame was not best pleased at being contradicted on a professional matter, and when Madame lost her temper you usually found it afterwards in the bill.”

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"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Reginald (1904)

“Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.”

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"Reginald at the Carlton"
Reginald (1904)

“His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.”

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Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

"Ministers of Grace"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

“Reginald sat in a corner of the Princess's salon and tried to forgive the furniture, which started out with an obvious intention of being Louis Quinze, but relapsed at frequent intervals into Wilhelm II.”

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"Reginald in Russia"
Reginald in Russia (1910)

“Which reminds me of the man I read of in some sacred book who was given a choice of what he most desired. And because he didn't ask for titles and honours and dignities, but only for immense wealth, these other things came to him also."
"I am sure you didn't read about him in any sacred book."
"Yes; I fancy you will find him in Debrett.”

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"Reginald at the Theatre"
Reginald (1904)

“Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.”

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Saki livre Beasts and Super-Beasts

"The Byzantine Omelette"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“I found everyone talking nervously and feverishly of the weather and the war in South Africa, except Reginald, who was reclining in a comfortable chair with the dreamy, far-away look that a volcano might wear just after it had desolated entire villages.”

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"Reginald"
Reginald (1904)

“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.”

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"The Innocence of Reginald"
Reginald (1904)

“And they tried to rag me in the smoking room about not being able to hit a bird at five yards, a sort of bovine ragging that suggested cows buzzing round a gadfly and thinking they were teasing it. So I got up the next morning at early dawn – I know it was dawn, because there were lark-noises in the sky, and the grass looked as if it had been left out all night.”

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"Reginald on House-Parties"
Reginald (1904)

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

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The Unbearable Bassington (1912), Ch. 13

“Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life the wondering look of a dreamer, the eyes of one who sees things that are not visible to ordinary mortals, and invests the commonplace things of this world with qualities unsuspected by plainer folk – the eyes of a poet or a house agent.”

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Saki livre Beasts and Super-Beasts

"The Dreamer"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“And like every woman who has ever preached repentance to unregenerate youth, she dwelt on the sin of an empty life, which always seems so much more scandalous in the country, where people rise early to see if a new strawberry has happened during the night.”

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"Reginald's Choir Treat"
Reginald (1904)

“Reginald closed his eyes with the elaborate weariness of one who has rather nice eyelashes and thinks it useless to conceal the fact.”

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"Reginald's Drama"
Reginald (1904)

“You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.”

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Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

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

“Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”

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Saki livre Beasts and Super-Beasts

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

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

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Saki livre Beasts and Super-Beasts

"Fur"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.”

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Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

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

“It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.”

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"Reginald on Christmas Presents"
Reginald (1904)

“I always say beauty is only sin deep.”

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"Reginald's Choir Treat"
Reginald (1904)

“Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.”

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"Reginald"
Reginald (1904)

“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”

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&quot; Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business http://books.google.com/books?id=aU_sxUxGtE0C&amp;q=%22A+little+inaccuracy+sometimes+saves+tons+of+explanation%22&amp;pg=PA560#v=onepage&quot; <br class="br">The Square Egg (1924)

“But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.”

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&quot; The Baker&#x27;s Dozen http://books.google.com/books?id=T64eeKXfGfUC&amp;q=&amp;quot;But+good+gracious+you&#x27;ve+got+to+educate+him+first+You+can&#x27;t+expect+a+boy+to+be+vicious+till+he&#x27;s+been+to+a+good+school&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA196#v=onepage&quot; <br class="br">Reginald in Russia (1910)

“I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got.”

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"The Innocence of Reginald"
Reginald (1904)

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