Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Saki Quotes
d. 1916 England
Saki (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture.
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- Short story writers
Also known as: H. H. Munro, Hector Hugh Munro
53 quotes
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
Reginald (1904)
Reginald (1904)
Reginald (1904)
Reginald (1904)
Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)
Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.
Reginald (1904)
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)
"To have reached thirty," said Reginald, "is to have failed in life."
Reginald (1904)
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
The Unbearable Bassington (1912)
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.
Reginald (1904)
Reginald (1904)
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
The Unbearable Bassington (1912)
Reginald (1904)
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
The Square Egg (1924)
The Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistress.
Reginald in Russia (1910)
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Saki (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.