Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

Hector Hugh Munro

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• What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

  

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• You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.

  

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• A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

  

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• "Be nice to your parents." When they made the decision to have a child, whether it was planned or not, they were changing their entire lives to do the best they could for this new human being. A lot of young people, we don't understand that.

  

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• Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

  

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• If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.

  

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• You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Soul
  • Brevity
  • Widowhood