Saki Quotes

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

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 ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains.' ("Laura")

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. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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

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

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

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

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