39 Great Quotes By Saki, The Master Of Short Stories
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
Romance at short notice was her specialty.
Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.
Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
...when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless...
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?
She looks as if she might have created the world in six days and destroyed it on the seventh.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.
Never,” wrote Reginald to his most darling friend, “be a pioneer. It's the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
It was the happiest Christmas Eve he had ever spent. To quote his own words, he had a rotten Christmas.
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
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.
This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.
When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care.
The fact of a leading organ of Evangelical thought being edited for two successive fortnights from Trouville and Monte Carlo was generally admitted to have been a mistake.
Neither man was talkative and each was grateful to the other for not being talkative. That is why from time to time they talked.
Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
I did it—I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops’ garden-party against his will. We all make mistakes occasionally.
