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Wednesday 11 February 2015

The Byzantine Omelette

Who is Sophie? what is she...

Sophie had very advanced and decided views as to the distribution of money: it was a pleasing and fortunate circumstance that she also had the money. 

When she inveighed eloquently against the evils of capitalism at drawing-room meetings and Fabian conferences she was conscious of a comfortable feeling that the system, with all its inequalities and iniquities, would probably last her time. It is one of the consolations of middle-aged reformers that the good they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
H.H. Munro (Saki) - The Byzantine Omelette

5 comments:

Sackerson said...

Yes! Excellent quotation!

James Higham said...

it was a pleasing and fortunate circumstance that she also had the money

Indeed.

A K Haart said...

Sackers and James - things don't change much do they?

Demetrius said...

You cannot make an omelette without doing at least some incidental damage to eggs.

A K Haart said...

Demetrius - we could call it culinary collateral damage.