Quotes by : Saki

I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice.'It's....

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese always leave room for the mouse.

Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that....

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

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.....