Quotes from book
Beasts and Super-Beasts

Name: Beasts and Super-Beasts
Author: Saki

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki and first published in 1914. The title parodies that of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

“To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.”

Saki book Beasts and Super-Beasts

"Fur"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“Romance at short notice was her speciality.”

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"The Open Window"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.”

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"The Blind Spot"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.”

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"The Byzantine Omelette"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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"Fur"
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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