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Quotes from Reginald — Saki

d. 1916 England

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23 quotes

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Reginald (1904)

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Reginald (1904)

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

Reginald (1904)

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Reginald (1904)

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

Reginald (1904)

Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.

Reginald (1904)

"To have reached thirty," said Reginald, "is to have failed in life."

Reginald (1904)

You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.

Reginald (1904)

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

Reginald (1904)

Reginald closed his eyes with the elaborate weariness of one who has rather nice eyelashes and thinks it useless to conceal the fact.

Reginald (1904)

I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got.

Reginald (1904)

To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely.

Reginald (1904)

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

Reginald (1904)

Mother, may I go and maffick,
Tear around and hinder traffic?

Reginald (1904)

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

Reginald (1904)

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

Reginald (1904)

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

Reginald (1904)

And like every woman who has ever preached repentance to unregenerate youth, she dwelt on the sin of an empty life, which always seems so much more scandalous in the country, where people rise early to see if a new strawberry has happened during the night.

Reginald (1904)

And the sleeper, eye unlidding,
Heard a voice for ever bidding
Much farewell to Dolly Gray;
Turning weary on his truckle-
Bed he heard the honey-suckle
Lauded in apiarian lay.

Reginald (1904)

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

Reginald (1904)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Saki (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.