Saki (1870 – 1916)
Pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture.
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.
Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.
And the sleeper, eye unlidding,
Heard a voice for ever bidding
Much farewell to Dolly Gray;
Turning weary on his truckle-
Bed he heard the honey-suckle
Lauded in apiarian lay.
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
Mother, may I go and maffick,
Tear around and hinder traffic?
Reginald sat in a corner of the Princess's salon and tried to forgive the furniture, which started out with an obvious intention of being Louis Quinze, but relapsed at frequent intervals into Wilhelm II.
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
And like every woman who has ever preached repentance to unregenerate youth, she dwelt on the sin of an empty life, which always seems so much more scandalous in the country, where people rise early to see if a new strawberry has happened during the night.
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.
A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.