Saki: Going

Saki was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on going.

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

"Reginald's Peace Poem"
Reginald (1904)

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

"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Reginald (1904)

“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)

“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)

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

"Reginald on the Academy"
Reginald (1904)