There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) Quotes
The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Beauty is only sin deep.
I hate babies. They’re so human – they remind one of monkeys.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
She took to telling the truth; she said she was forty-two and five months. It may have been pleasing to the angels, but her elder sister was not gratified.
