Гектор Хью Манро цитаты
Гектор Хью Манро
Дата рождения: 18. Декабрь 1870
Дата смерти: 13. Ноябрь 1916
Саки , псевдоним; настоящее имя Гектор Хью Манро — английский писатель и журналист. Псевдоним «Саки» на языке фарси означает «виночерпий» и «кравчий», скорее всего, заимствован из поэзии Омара Хайяма.
Цитаты Гектор Хью Манро
„The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.“
— Saki
"The Achievement of the Cat"
The Square Egg (1924)
Контексте: The animal which the Egyptians worshipped as divine, which the Romans venerated as a symbol of liberty, which Europeans in the ignorant Middle Ages anathematised as an agent of demonology, has displayed to all ages two closely blended characteristics — courage and self-respect. No matter how unfavourable the circumstances, both qualities are always to the fore. Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. And disassociate the luxury-loving cat from the atmosphere of social comfort in which it usually contrives to move, and observe it critically under the adverse conditions of civilisation — that civilisation which can impel a man to the degradation of clothing himself in tawdry ribald garments and capering mountebank dances in the streets for the earning of the few coins that keep him on the respectable, or non-criminal, side of society. The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.
„Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.“
— Saki
"The Achievement of the Cat"
The Square Egg (1924)
Контексте: The animal which the Egyptians worshipped as divine, which the Romans venerated as a symbol of liberty, which Europeans in the ignorant Middle Ages anathematised as an agent of demonology, has displayed to all ages two closely blended characteristics — courage and self-respect. No matter how unfavourable the circumstances, both qualities are always to the fore. Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. And disassociate the luxury-loving cat from the atmosphere of social comfort in which it usually contrives to move, and observe it critically under the adverse conditions of civilisation — that civilisation which can impel a man to the degradation of clothing himself in tawdry ribald garments and capering mountebank dances in the streets for the earning of the few coins that keep him on the respectable, or non-criminal, side of society. The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.
„The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.“
— Saki
"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Reginald (1904)
„A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.“
— Saki
" Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business http://books.google.com/books?id=aU_sxUxGtE0C&q=%22A+little+inaccuracy+sometimes+saves+tons+of+explanation%22&pg=PA560#v=onepage"
The Square Egg (1924)
„It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.“
— Saki
"Reginald on Christmas Presents"
Reginald (1904)
„Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.“
— Saki
"Reginald at the Carlton"
Reginald (1904)
„I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate.“
— Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis
"The Recessional"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
„Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.“
— Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis
"Esmé"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
„I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.“
— Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis
"Adrian"
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.“
— Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis
"The Match-Maker"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
„Mrs. Troyle paused again, with the self-applauding air of one who has detected an asp lurking in an apple-charlotte.“
— Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis
"The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
