Ian Anderson

“They made a mess of 1914. They came a cropper in 1940. And now they're working up for it again.”
― John Wyndham, Wanderers of Time

“Lady Susan disapproved of racing. She disapproved of many things; some people went as far as to say that she disapproved of most things. Disapproval was to her was neuralgia and fancy needlework are to many other women.”
― Saki, The Complete Short Stories of Saki

“Oh, by no means. The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.”
― Saki, The Complete Short Stories of Saki

“You see the river has overflowed its banks as well."
"Good gracious! Have any lives been lost?"
"Heaps, I should say. The second housemaid has already identified three bodies that have floated past the billiard-room window as being the young man she's engaged to. Either she's engaged to a large assortment of the population round here or else she's very careless at identification. Of course it may be the same body coming round again and again in a swirl; I hadn't thought of that.”
― Saki, The Complete Short Stories