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“Sredni Vashtar went forth,
His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.
His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death.
Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful.”

Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

"Sredni Vashtar"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

Death , Peace , Beauty

“Temptations came to him, in middle age, tentatively and without insistence, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason than that he didn't get one in December.”

Saki

"The Reticence of Lady Anne"
Reginald in Russia (1910)

Age , Hope , Boy , Christmas

“I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.”

Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

"Adrian"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

Love

“I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.”

Saki

"Reginald on Christmas Presents"
Reginald (1904)

Age , Feeling , Boy , Thinking

“Put that bloody cigarette out!”

Saki

His last words, before being shot by a German sniper who'd heard the remark, as reported in The Square Egg (1924), p. 102

“Romance at short notice was her speciality.”

Saki book Beasts and Super-Beasts

"The Open Window"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion," [Clovis] 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.”

Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

"The Match-Maker"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

Religion , Beauty , Forgiveness , Thinking

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

Saki

"Reginald on the Academy"
Reginald (1904)

Life

“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.”

Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

"Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

People , Thinking

“Mrs. Troyle paused again, with the self-applauding air of one who has detected an asp lurking in an apple-charlotte.”

Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

"The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

“All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.”

Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

"The Match Maker"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

People

“You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”

Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

"The Match-Maker"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

Love , Soul , Wine

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

Saki

"Reginald on Worries"
Reginald (1904)

Thinking

“A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.”

Saki book Beasts and Super-Beasts

"The Blind Spot"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“Madame was not best pleased at being contradicted on a professional matter, and when Madame lost her temper you usually found it afterwards in the bill.”

Saki

"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Reginald (1904)

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

Saki

"Reginald at the Carlton"
Reginald (1904)

People , Thinking

“Reginald sat in a corner of the Princess's salon and tried to forgive the furniture, which started out with an obvious intention of being Louis Quinze, but relapsed at frequent intervals into Wilhelm II.”

Saki

"Reginald in Russia"
Reginald in Russia (1910)

Forgiveness , Princess

“Which reminds me of the man I read of in some sacred book who was given a choice of what he most desired. And because he didn't ask for titles and honours and dignities, but only for immense wealth, these other things came to him also."
"I am sure you didn't read about him in any sacred book."
"Yes; I fancy you will find him in Debrett.”

Saki

"Reginald at the Theatre"
Reginald (1904)

Books , Reading , Wealth

“Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.”

Saki book Beasts and Super-Beasts

"The Byzantine Omelette"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

Marriage