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1 " I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart. "
― Saki , The Unbearable Bassington
2 " The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. "
― Saki , The Complete Saki
3 " The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. "
― Saki , Reginald
4 " Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar. "
― Saki
5 " 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 everything, even the weather forecast. "
6 " Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking so. However, as we gave up witchcraft prosecutions about three hundred years ago, we don’t like to have other people keeping on our discarded practices; it doesn’t seem respectful to our mental and moral position. "
7 " 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 seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay. "
― Saki , The Chronicles of Clovis
8 " 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 frantic resistance. "
9 " 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-haunted old homestead, where something unmistakably like witchcraft seemed to hold a very practical sway. "
10 " Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well. "
11 " To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening. "
12 " The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'. "
13 " The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. "
14 " The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. "
15 " The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. "
16 " I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. "
17 " In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. "
― Saki , The Square Egg And Other Sketches
18 " nothing seemed to belong definitely to anywhere; even the gates were not necessarily to be found on their hinges. "
19 " They(women) go shopping as assiduously as bees go flower-visiting. "
20 " The Goblin was too well bred to wink; besides, being a stone goblin, it was out of the question. "
