Saki Quotes

I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice.'It's her own funeral, you know,' said Sir Lulworth; 'it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains.' (Laura)

~ Saki

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

~ Saki

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

~ Saki

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

~ Saki

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

~ Saki

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

~ Saki

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

~ Saki

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.

~ Saki

Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking so. However, as we gave up witchcraft prosecutions about three hundred years ago, we don’t like to have other people keeping on our discarded practices; it doesn’t seem respectful to our mental and moral position.

~ Saki

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

~ Saki

Miles away, down through an opening in the hills, he could catch glimpses of a road where motor-cars sometimes passed, and yet here, so removed from the arteries of the latest civilization, was a bat-haunted old homestead, where something unmistakably like witchcraft seemed to hold a very practical sway.

~ Saki

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

~ Saki

The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.

~ Saki

The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.

~ Saki

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

~ Saki

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

~ Saki

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

~ Saki

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

~ Saki

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

~ Saki