Saki Quotes (17 Quotes)

Her frocks are built in Paris but she wears them with a strong English accent.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity The religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

In baiting a mouse trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

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.

I believe I take precedence,' he said coldly 'you are merely the club Bore I am the club Liar.'

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go and as cooks go, she went.

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.

Even the Hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him.