# Saki

- Quotes: 11
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki

## Books

- [The Complete Short Stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories.md) — 11 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> [...] be surrounded by Americans trying to talk French? No, thank you. I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

The Chronicles of Clovis · p. 44303 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/be-surrounded-by-americans.md)

> [...] cats, [...] wonderful creatures which have assimilated themselves so marvellously with our civilization while retaining all their highly developed feral instincts.

spoken by Mr. Appin · The Chronicles of Clovis · Tobermory · p. 109 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/cats-wonderful-creatures-which-have-assimilated.md)

> [...] the Duchess declared I shouldn't write anything nasty in her book, and I said I shouldn't write anything in her nasty book, so there wasn't a very wide point of difference between us.

Reginald · Reginald's Rubaiyat · p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/the-duchess-declared-i-shouldnt-write-anything.md)

> [...] the Mayor gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.

Reginald · Reginald's Christmas Revel · p. 34 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/the-mayor-gave-us-a-graphic-account.md)

> The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations [...].

spoken by Reginald · Reginald · Reginald at the Carlton · p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/the-young-have-aspirations-that-never-come-to.md)

> Life is full of disappointments, [...] and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

spoken by The Duchess Irene · Reginald · Reginald at the Carlton · p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/life-is-full-of-disappointments-and-i.md)

> [...] if you want a lesson in elaborate artificiality, just watch the studied unconcern of a Persian cat entering a crowded salon, and then go and practise it for a fortnight.

spoken by The Duchess Irene · Reginald · Reginald on Worries · p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/if-you-want.md)

> The reason one's elders know so comparatively little is because they have to unlearn so much that they acquired by way of education before we were born.

Reginald · Reginald on Worries · p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/the-reason-ones-elders-know-so-comparatively-little.md)

> [...] never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive, grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

spoken by Reginald · Reginald · Reginald at the Theatre · p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/never-be-flippantly-rude-to-any-inoffensive.md)

> [...] the art of life was the avoidance of the unattainable.

spoken by Reginald · Reginald · Reginald on the Academy · p. 11 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/the-art-of-life-was-the-avoidance.md)

> There ought [...] to be technical education classes on the science of present-giving. No one seems to have the faintest notion of what any one else wants, and the prevalent ideas on the subject are not creditable to a civilized community.

spoken by Mr. Appin · Reginald · Reginald on Worries · p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/there-ought-to-be-technical.md)