Saki: Likeness

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

Saki

"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Reginald (1904)

Revenge , Sister , Time

“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.”

Saki

"Reginald's Rubaiyat"
Reginald (1904)

Birth , Understanding

“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 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

“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

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

Saki

The Unbearable Bassington (1912), Ch. 13

Truth , Wedding

“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.”

Saki

"Reginald's Choir Treat"
Reginald (1904)

Life , People , Youth , Night

“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