Daily Inspiration Quote by Hector Hugh Munro

“A little inaccuracy” is a deliberately cheeky defense of the social lie: the soft-edged distortion that keeps life moving when the full, pedantic truth would bog everything down. Coming from Hector Hugh Munro, better known as Saki, the line carries that signature Edwardian acid - polite surfaces, sharp teeth underneath. He’s not praising ignorance; he’s pointing at the quiet bargain that underwrites everyday conversation, journalism, and even morality: accuracy has a cost, and the bill often comes due in tedious justifications.

The wording is surgical. “Sometimes” gives him plausible deniability, while “a ton of explanation” exaggerates just enough to make honesty sound like labor and self-defense. In Saki’s world, explanation is rarely innocent. It’s what people reach for when they’ve violated a rule, bruised an ego, or need to launder a motive into respectability. A small untruth can act like social lubrication, sparing everyone the spectacle of motives being dragged into daylight.

The subtext is more cynical than comforting: society isn’t built on transparency but on manageable fictions. Those fictions protect reputations and preserve hierarchies - the kind of hierarchies Saki skewered by letting the well-bred reveal themselves in their own refined evasions. Read in its early-20th-century context, it also lands as a wink at institutions (press, politics, empire) that sold complexity as certainty. When the story has to be clean, a little inaccuracy isn’t a bug; it’s the feature that keeps the machine from stalling.