“What do you think of human intelligence?" asked Mavis Pellington lamely. "Of whose intelligence in particular?" asked Tobermory coldly. "Oh, well, mine for instance," said Mavis with a feeble laugh. "You put me in an embarrassing position," said Tobermory, whose… — Saki Copy Share Image
“it was decorated with Japanese fans and Chinese lanterns, which gave it a very Old English effect.” — Saki Copy Share Image
“In spite of everything that proverbs may say, poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.” — Saki Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Even the hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him.” — Saki Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Never,” wrote Reginald to his most darling friend, “be a pioneer. It's the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.” — Saki Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
