Saki quotes

Saki was a British writer and satirist, best known for his witty and sometimes macabre short stories. His works often explored the absurdities and hypocrisies of Edwardian society. He remains an influential figure in English literature, celebrated for his sharp humor and unique storytelling style. Here are 67 of his quotes:

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. (Saki)

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

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I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

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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.

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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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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.

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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.

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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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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.

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

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

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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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.

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The Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistress.

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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.

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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.

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Saki

Occupation: British Novelist
Born: December 18, 1870
Died: November 13, 1916
Quotes count: 67
Wikipedia: Saki

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