“In the same way, whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another, no one seems to think that there are people who might… — Saki Copy Share Image
“it was decorated with Japanese fans and Chinese lanterns, which gave it a very Old English effect.” — Saki Copy Share
“In spite of everything that proverbs may say, poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.” — Saki Copy Share
“For a boy who went out to it from the dulness of some country rectory, from a neighbourhood where a flower show and a… — Saki Copy Share
“I did it—I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops’ garden-party against his will. We all make mistakes… — Saki Copy Share
“Even the hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him.” — Saki Copy Share
“Publishers always clamour for the books that no one has ever written, and turn a cold shoulder on them as soon as they're written.… — Saki Copy Share
“The young have aspirations that never comes to pass,the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious… — Saki Copy Share
“Never,” wrote Reginald to his most darling friend, “be a pioneer. It's the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.” — Saki Copy Share
“how unfortunate that we should have had that very cold weather at a time when coal was so dear! So distressing for the poor.”… — Saki Copy Share
“There is no outlet for demonstrating your feelings towards people whom you simply loathe. That is really the crying need of our modern civilisation.… — saki Copy Share
“I am not thinking in the manner of Peter Pan,” said the other. “With all reverence for the author of that masterpiece I should… — Saki Copy Share
“With us," said Reginald, "a Cabinet usually gets the credit of being depraved and worthless beyond the bounds of human conception by the time… — Saki Copy Share
“What she tried to label honesty in his candour was probably only a cynical defiance of the laws of right and wrong.” — Saki Copy Share
