Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Hector Hugh Munro

• Clear Conscience
• Cear soup

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• I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Education
  • Positive

• I think governments can't do much.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Government
  • I Think

• Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Time
  • Years
  • Will

• When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Up
  • Money
  • Job

• 'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Important
  • Mind
  • May

• I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Live
  • House
  • Nice

• I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.

  

  Kevin Costner

• The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Age

• I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Music

• I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.

  

  Kiran Bedi
  • Up
  • Justice
  • Vision

• Whether there's 100 people or 100,000, we bring our 'A' game every single time. We're full-speed on stage. We kick the audience's butt.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Time
  • Game

• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  

  Donovan Bailey
  • Long
  • Brain
  • Exercise

• The whole thing is, really, money makes money. That's the whole thing about capitalism. Without the capital, there is no -ism.

  

  Li Lu
  • Money

• There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can 'afford to save the environment.' This 'Kuznets Curve' thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Thinking
  • Earth
  • Environment

• I feel more content with what I wear. I always feel confident. I shop for my age and my body.

  

  Peggy Lipton
  • Age

• I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell

• There are different ways that people feel like it should be done. Any way that you can add a player -- I don't care if it's a trade, the draft, free agency -- I want to be aggressive. Free agency is a place where you make fewer mistakes because you're not trying to project somebody from a college environment to the pros. You've got somebody that has already played up here and been successful.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

  

  Marsha Blackburn

• Hey, Jamie,' said Seb. 'Want a lift?' 'Hey, Seb,' Jamie responded without missing a beat 'Drop dead.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Dead

• The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

  

  Lady Jane Grey
  • Great
  • God
  • May

• The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Giving
  • Desire
  • Enemy

• I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here’s the simple truth—if I hadn’t taken the ship off Phydus, people like ***** and ******* would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can’t tell me their side.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Deaths

• I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Clear Conscience
  • Cear soup