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“To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”
― Saki, Reginald

“Katie shook her head in dismay. “I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.â€�

“No, Katie,� the countess said in a clear voice. “The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another.�

—Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury”
― Jina Bacarr, Titanic Rhapsody

“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea”
― Henry James

“[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took place year after year in a setting of traditional dignity and beauty. The great houses—Devonshire, Dorchester, Grosvenor, Stafford and Lansdowne House—had not yet been converted into museums, hotels and flats, and there we danced through the long summer nights till dawn. The great country-houses still flourished in their glory, and on their lawns in the green shade of trees the art of human intercourse was exquisitely practised by men and women not yet enslaved by household cares and chores who still had time to read, to talk, to listen and to think.”
― Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait

“It was one of those exuberant peaches that meet you halfway, so to speak, and are all over you in a moment.”
― saki, The Chronicles of Clovis

“The world of 1906...was a stable and a civilized world in which the greatness and authority of Britain and her Empire seemed unassailable and invulnerably secure. In spite of our reverses in the Boer War it was assumed unquestioningly that we should always emerge "victorious, happy and glorious" from any conflict. There were no doubts about the permanence of our "dominion over palm and pine", or of our title to it. Powerful, prosperous, peace-loving, with the seas all round us and the Royal Navy on the seas, the social, economic, international order seemed to our unseeing eyes as firmly fixed on earth as the signs of the Zodiac in the sky.”
― Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait

“I’m sorry,â€� he said in a soft voice while leaning closer to her, “for taking liberties earlier. I hope I didn’t offend you.â€�

“You kissed me,� she answered, equally quietly, then laughed out loud. “I was a little shocked at first, perhaps, but I’m over it.�

“Over it?� His heart sank. Not the reaction he’d hoped. Perhaps he was out of practice.

“I rather enjoyed it, if you must know. It has been a long time since I’ve had such a kiss. Nothing like a bold and lingering kiss. How I’ve missed it. Ah, now you look shocked. Good. I’ve had my revenge.”
― Sherri Browning, Thornbrook Park

“I mean to explore you thoroughly this time.â€�

“Take heed, Captain. I’m prepared to answer all threats measure for measure.”
― Sherri Browning, Thornbrook Park

“Eve.â€� He placed himself in front of her again. “We can’t have any more than today, but we can have today.â€�

“What are you suggesting?� Eve’s pulse raced, wildfire in her veins.

Marcus gripped her by the shoulders, his mouth opening ravenously on hers, and then he broke the kiss as suddenly as it had begun. “For today, at least, we could pretend we have each other, and no one else. No demands, no promises to keep.”
― Sherri Browning, Thornbrook Park

“The little stone Saint and the Goblin got on very well together, though they looked at most things from different points of view. The Saint was a philanthropist in an old fashioned way; he thought the world, as he saw it, was good, but might be improved. In particular he pitied the church mice, who were miserably poor. The Goblin, on the other hand, was of opinion that the world, as he knew it, was bad, but had better be let alone. It was the function of the church mice to be poor.”
― Saki, Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

“if he had an equal in his profession he had never acknowledged the fact.”
― Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis

“Who are those depressed-looking young women who have just gone by?" asked the Baroness; "they have the air of people who have bowed to destiny and are not quite sure whether the salute will be returned.”
― Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis

“she had been the eldest sister of a large family of self-indulgent children, and her particular form of indulgence had consisted in openly disapproving of the foibles of the others. Unfortunately the hobby had grown up with her.”
― Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis

“I imagined a ball, visitors coming in from all over England, or perhaps a house party. Most of my idea of old houses had come from Downtown Abbey, and I imagined women in delicate Edwardian dresses headed for dinner, ropes of pearls and rubies looped around their thin necks. As if to accommodate my vision, I opened one of the doors to find a peacock-themed room, redolent with the fading colonial era.”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

“Reginald gave a delicate shiver, such as an Italian greyhound might give in contemplating the approach of an ice age of which he personally disapproved, and resigned himself to the inevitable political discussion.”
― Saki, Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

“Temptations came to him, in middle age, tentatively and without insistence, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason that than he didn’t get one in December. He had no more idea of succumbing to them than he had of purchasing the fish-knives and fur boas that ladies are impelled to sacrifice through the medium of advertisement columns during twelve months of the year. Still, there was something impressive in this unasked-for renunciation of possibly latent enormities.”
― saki, Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

“As I taught you, my dear. Trip. Run into the most ostentatiously dressed women. Step on toes, and snub anyone you can. Perhaps sneeze in a cup or two of punch, and Mary will be begging us to leave.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Lost Heiress

“The etchings are remarkable. As the Pierpont Morgan Library will be if I am placed in the position of librarian. (25)”
― The Personal Historian