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| "I wasn't living apart from my husband then; you see, neither of us could afford to make the other a separate allowance. In spite of everything that proverbs may say, poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up." | Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis |  |
| "All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples. A few gifted individuals manage to do both." | Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis | |
| "You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed." | Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis | |
| "No one has ever said it," observed Lady Caroline, "but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them." | Saki | The Unbearable Bassington | |
| "If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits." | Saki | The Unbearable Bassington | |
| "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--that is why one should be so patient with them." | Saki | Reginald | |
| The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went. | Saki | Reginald | |
