“ 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. Saki
“ Sherard Blaw the dramatist who had discovered himself and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world. Saki
“ The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored. Saki
“ 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, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a fr… Saki
“ I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Onc… 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
“ The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. 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 o… Saki
“ Miles away, down through an opening in the hills, he could catch glimpses of a road where motor-cars sometimes passed, and yet here, so removed from the arteries of the latest civilization, was a bat-… 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 everythin… Saki
“ There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred s… Saki
