Saki Short Quotes

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

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The Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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I hate babies. They're so human—they remind one of monkeys.

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Mother, may I go and maffick,
Tear around and hinder traffic?

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

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

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"To have reached thirty," said Reginald, "is to have failed in life."

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To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely.

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

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I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got.

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

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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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

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

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

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People will do things from a sense of duty which they would never attempt as a pleasure.

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Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.

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Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

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

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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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You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.

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Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

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Didn't some cynical critic say the Church of England is the only barrier between England and Christianity?

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'I must be going,' said Mrs Eggelby, in a tone which had been thoroughly sterilised of even perfunctory regret.

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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

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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.

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