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

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"Reginald on the Academy"
Reginald (1904)

Painting

“I found everyone talking nervously and feverishly of the weather and the war in South Africa, except Reginald, who was reclining in a comfortable chair with the dreamy, far-away look that a volcano might wear just after it had desolated entire villages.”

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"Reginald"
Reginald (1904)

War , Weather

“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.”

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"The Innocence of Reginald"
Reginald (1904)

People

“And they tried to rag me in the smoking room about not being able to hit a bird at five yards, a sort of bovine ragging that suggested cows buzzing round a gadfly and thinking they were teasing it. So I got up the next morning at early dawn – I know it was dawn, because there were lark-noises in the sky, and the grass looked as if it had been left out all night.”

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"Reginald on House-Parties"
Reginald (1904)

Bird , Thinking , Grass , Night

“We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.”

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The Unbearable Bassington (1912), Ch. 13

Truth , Wedding

“Cyprian was a boy who carried with him through early life the wondering look of a dreamer, the eyes of one who sees things that are not visible to ordinary mortals, and invests the commonplace things of this world with qualities unsuspected by plainer folk – the eyes of a poet or a house agent.”

Saki book Beasts and Super-Beasts

"The Dreamer"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

Life , World , Boy , Housing

“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.”

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"Reginald's Choir Treat"
Reginald (1904)

Life , People , Youth , Night

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

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"Reginald's Drama"
Reginald (1904)

Thinking

“Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”

Saki book Beasts and Super-Beasts

"The Feast of Nemesis"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

Death , People

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

Saki book Beasts and Super-Beasts

"Fur"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

Friendship , Beauty

“Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.”

Saki The Chronicles of Clovis

"The Jesting of Arlington Stringham"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)

Hate , Children , Boy

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

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"Reginald on Christmas Presents"
Reginald (1904)

Country

“I always say beauty is only sin deep.”

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"Reginald's Choir Treat"
Reginald (1904)

Beauty

“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”

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" Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business http://books.google.com/books?id=aU_sxUxGtE0C&q=%22A+little+inaccuracy+sometimes+saves+tons+of+explanation%22&pg=PA560#v=onepage"
The Square Egg (1924)

“But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.”

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" The Baker's Dozen http://books.google.com/books?id=T64eeKXfGfUC&q="But+good+gracious+you've+got+to+educate+him+first+You+can't+expect+a+boy+to+be+vicious+till+he's+been+to+a+good+school"&pg=PA196#v=onepage"
Reginald in Russia (1910)

Education , School , Boy

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

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"The Innocence of Reginald"
Reginald (1904)