Saki Quotes

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

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

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

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

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

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

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

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

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.

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

The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

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

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

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.