I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Saki

Stichwörter: money humour wit



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In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Saki

Stichwörter: trap baiting mousetrap bait



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Behind his careful political flippancy and cynicism one might also detect a certain careless sincerity, which would probably in the long run save him from moderate success, and turn him into one of the brilliant failures of his day. 

Saki

Stichwörter: humor humour



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she looks as if she might have created the world in six days and destroyed it on the seventh.

Saki


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Publishers always clamour for the books that no one has ever written, and turn a cold shoulder on them as soon as they're written. If St Paul were living now they would pester him to write an Epistle to the Esquimaux, but no London publisher would dream of reading his Epistle to the Ephesians.

Saki


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