Quote by Saki Download Open image ““Pluralism is a merciful narcotic.”” — Saki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When we are all guilty, that will be democracy. Not to mention the fact that we must be revenged for having to die alone.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For happy are the merciful for they shall, too, know mercy.” — David Paul Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“Thus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the mind should remain so balanced… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.” — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“People are not always what they say there are - or even what they think they are. There is but One who sees us… — Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
“Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.” — Mark Lawrence 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