Saki quotes

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. (Saki)
Women and elephants never forget an injury. View quote
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Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. View quote
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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. View quote
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I always say beauty is only sin deep. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think. View quote
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All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both. View quote
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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments. View quote
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His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect. View quote
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I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly. (Saki)
A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. View quote
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. View quote
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes. View quote
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart. View quote
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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood. View quote
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The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other. View quote
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. View quote
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went. View quote
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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions. View quote
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. (Saki)
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. View quote
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The Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistress. View quote
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It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score. View quote
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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. View quote
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