Top 25 Saki Quotes (2024 Update)

Saki Quote: “A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”

1. “A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”

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Saki Quote: “I’m living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

2. “I’m living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

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Saki Quote: “The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”

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

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Saki Quote: “The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”

4. “The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”

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Saki Quote: “Imperious and yet forlorn,. Came through the silence of the trees,. The echoes of a golden horn,. Calling to distances.”

5. “Imperious and yet forlorn,. Came through the silence of the trees,. The echoes of a golden horn,. Calling to distances.”

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Saki Quote: “When love is over, how little of love even the lover understands,” quoted Clovis to himself.”

6. “When love is over, how little of love even the lover understands,” quoted Clovis to himself.”

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Saki Quote: “The English have a proverb, ‘Conscience makes cowboys of us all’.”

7. “The English have a proverb, ‘Conscience makes cowboys of us all’.”

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Saki Quote: “No one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.”

8. “No one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.”

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Saki Quote: “Never,” wrote Reginald to his most darling friend, “be a pioneer. It’s the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.”

9. “Never,” wrote Reginald to his most darling friend, “be a pioneer. It’s the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.”

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Saki Quote: “It was a fresh rain-repentant afternoon, following a morning that had been sultry and torrentially wet by turns; the sort of afternoon that impels people to talk graciously of the rain as having done a lot of good, its chief merit in their eyes probably having been its recognition of the art of moderation.”

10. “It was a fresh rain-repentant afternoon, following a morning that had been sultry and torrentially wet by turns; the sort of afternoon that impels people to talk graciously of the rain as having done a lot of good, its chief merit in their eyes probably having been its recognition of the art of moderation.”

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Saki Quote: “I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,′ he resumed presently. ‘They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There’s nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.”

11. “I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,′ he resumed presently. ‘They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There’s nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.”

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Saki Quote: “I wonder,” said Reginald, “if you have ever walked down the Embankment on a winter night?” “Gracious, no, child! Why do you ask?” “I didn’t; I only wondered. And even your philanthropy, practised in a world where everything is based on competition, must have a debit as well as a credit account. The young ravens cry for food.” “And are fed.” “Exactly. Which presupposes that something else is fed upon.”

12. “I wonder,” said Reginald, “if you have ever walked down the Embankment on a winter night?” “Gracious, no, child! Why do you ask?” “I didn’t; I only wondered. And even your philanthropy, practised in a world where everything is based on competition, must have a debit as well as a credit account. The young ravens cry for food.” “And are fed.” “Exactly. Which presupposes that something else is fed upon.”

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Saki Quote: “I regard one’s hair as I regard husbands: as long as one is seen together in public one’s private divergences don’t matter.”

13. “I regard one’s hair as I regard husbands: as long as one is seen together in public one’s private divergences don’t matter.”

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Saki Quote: “She was one of those who shape their opinions rather readily from the standpoint of those around them.”

14. “She was one of those who shape their opinions rather readily from the standpoint of those around them.”

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Saki Quote: “Susan Mebberley was a charming woman, but she was also an aunt.”

15. “Susan Mebberley was a charming woman, but she was also an aunt.”

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Saki Quote: “I wonder why it is that scandal seems so much worse under a roof,” observed Clovis; “I’ve always regarded it as a proof of the superior delicacy of the cat tribe that it conducts most of its scandals above the slates.”

16. “I wonder why it is that scandal seems so much worse under a roof,” observed Clovis; “I’ve always regarded it as a proof of the superior delicacy of the cat tribe that it conducts most of its scandals above the slates.”

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Saki Quote: “In the same way, whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out “under orders” from somewhere or another, no one seems to think that there are people who might LIKE to kill their neighbours now and then.”

17. “In the same way, whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out “under orders” from somewhere or another, no one seems to think that there are people who might LIKE to kill their neighbours now and then.”

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Saki Quote: “For a boy who went out to it from the dulness of some country rectory, from a neighbourhood where a flower show and a cricket match formed the social landmarks of the year, the feeling of exile might not be very crushing, might indeed be lost in the sense of change and adventure.”

18. “For a boy who went out to it from the dulness of some country rectory, from a neighbourhood where a flower show and a cricket match formed the social landmarks of the year, the feeling of exile might not be very crushing, might indeed be lost in the sense of change and adventure.”

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Saki Quote: “With due deference to an esteemed lyrical authority one may safely say that a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is anticipating unhappier things.”

19. “With due deference to an esteemed lyrical authority one may safely say that a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is anticipating unhappier things.”

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Saki Quote: “Laurence was an artist-chap, just that and nothing more, though you might make it sound more important by calling him an animal painter;.”

20. “Laurence was an artist-chap, just that and nothing more, though you might make it sound more important by calling him an animal painter;.”

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Saki Quote: “It is the penalty and the safeguard of genius that it computes itself by troy weight in a world that measures by vulgar hundredweights.”

21. “It is the penalty and the safeguard of genius that it computes itself by troy weight in a world that measures by vulgar hundredweights.”

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Saki Quote: “The gipsies were equally unobtrusive over their missing offspring; I don’t suppose in large encampments they really know to a child or two how many they’ve got.”

22. “The gipsies were equally unobtrusive over their missing offspring; I don’t suppose in large encampments they really know to a child or two how many they’ve got.”

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Saki Quote: “On the stream banks moorhens walked with jerky confident steps, in the easy boldness of those who had a couple of other elements at their disposal in an emergency; more timorous partridges raced away from the apparition of the train, looking all leg and neck, like little forest elves fleeing from human encounter.”

23. “On the stream banks moorhens walked with jerky confident steps, in the easy boldness of those who had a couple of other elements at their disposal in an emergency; more timorous partridges raced away from the apparition of the train, looking all leg and neck, like little forest elves fleeing from human encounter.”

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Saki Quote: “He will not live much longer”But the doctor did not know about his imagination. In hes lonely, loveless world his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive.”

24. “He will not live much longer”But the doctor did not know about his imagination. In hes lonely, loveless world his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive.”

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Saki Quote: “I can remember a menu long after I’ve forgotten the hostess that accompanied it.”

25. “I can remember a menu long after I’ve forgotten the hostess that accompanied it.”

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Saki Quote: “Who are those depressed-looking young women who have just gone by?” asked the Baroness; “they have the air of people who have bowed to destiny and are not quite sure whether the salute will be returned.”

26. “Who are those depressed-looking young women who have just gone by?” asked the Baroness; “they have the air of people who have bowed to destiny and are not quite sure whether the salute will be returned.”

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Saki Quote: “You poor little strawberry-leafed nonentity.”

27. “You poor little strawberry-leafed nonentity.”

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