The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
~
Beasts and Super-Beasts
by
Saki
His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
~
The Chronicles of Clovis
by
Saki
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.
~
Reginald
by
Saki
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
~
Reginald
by
Saki
"I always say beauty is only sin deep."
~
Reginald
by
Saki
You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.
~
Reginald
by
Saki
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
~
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
by
Oscar Wilde
"No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."
~
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
by
Oscar Wilde
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
~
Lord Arthur Saviles Crime
by
Oscar Wilde
"I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."
~
The Great Gatsby
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald