Saki
“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”
“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”
“Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.”
“As I was walking up the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there. / He wasn’t there again today. / I wish, I wish he’d stay away.”
“After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.”
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
“Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.”
“I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.”
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.”
“My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone’s, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.”
“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”