“To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”
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, The Complete Saki“Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.”
Saki, The Complete Saki“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.”
Saki, The Complete Saki“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, The Complete Saki“Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.”
Saki“Sherard Blaw the dramatist who had discovered himself and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.”
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