Saki: Quotes about thinking

Saki was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

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“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.”

"Reginald on Christmas Presents"
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)

“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)

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

"Reginald on Worries"
Reginald (1904)

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

"Reginald at the Carlton"
Reginald (1904)

“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.”

"Reginald on House-Parties"
Reginald (1904)

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

"Reginald's Drama"
Reginald (1904)