Saki: Quotes about boys

Saki was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on boy.

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“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)

“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)

“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)

“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)

“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.”

Saki

" The Baker's Dozen http://books.google.com/books?id=T64eeKXfGfUC&q=&quot;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&quot;&pg=PA196#v=onepage" <br class="br">Reginald in Russia (1910)