Quotes by : Saki

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

Miles away, down through an opening in the hills, he could catch glimpses of a road where motor-cars....

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

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity....

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it....

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

It follows that they never understood Reginald, who came down late to breakfast, and nibbled toast, and....

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

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.....