Saki quotes - page 3

Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own. (Saki)
Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two. View quote
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I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got. View quote
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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. View quote
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I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate. View quote
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The death of John Pennington had left his widow in circumstances which were more straitened than ever, and the Park had receded even from her notepaper, where it had long been retained as a courtesy title on the principle that addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. View quote
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And the sleeper, eye unlidding, Heard a voice for ever bidding Much farewell to Dolly Gray; Turning weary on his truckle- Bed he heard the honey-suckle Lauded in apiarian lay. View quote
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Reginald, in his way, was a pioneer. None of the rest of his family had anything approaching Titian hair or a sense of humour, and they used primroses as a table decoration. It follows that they never understood Reginald, who came down late to breakfast, and nibbled toast, and said disrespectful things about the universe. The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast. View quote
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. View quote
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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. View quote
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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)
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born. View quote
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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. View quote
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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. View quote
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. View quote
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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it. View quote
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. View quote
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