Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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Aphorisms by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream)
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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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
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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.
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The fashion just now is a roman catholic frame of mind with an agnostic conscience: you get the medieval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.
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All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.
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I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
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