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Saki
57 quotes
“Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.”
Saki (1870–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”
Saki (1870–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life the wondering look of a dreamer, the eyes of one who sees things that are not visible to ordinary mortals, and invests the commonplace things of this world with qualities unsuspected by plainer folk – the eyes of a poet or a house agent.”
Saki (1870–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”
Saki (1870–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.”
Saki (1870–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
Saki (1870–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The animal which the Egyptians worshipped as divine, which the Romans venerated as a symbol of liberty, which Europeans in the ignorant Middle Ages anathematised as an agent of demonology, has displayed to all ages two closely blended characteristics — courage and self-respect. No matter how unfavourable the circumstances, both qualities are always to the fore. Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. And disassociate the luxury-loving cat from the atmosphere of social comfort in which it usually contrives to move, and observe it critically under the adverse conditions of civilisation — that civilisation which can impel a man to the degradation of clothing himself in tawdry ribald garments and capering mountebank dances in the streets for the earning of the few coins that keep him on the respectable, or non-criminal, side of society. The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.”
Saki (1870–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source