P.G. Wodehouse Quotes
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P.G. Wodehouse Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You can't fling the hands up in a passionate gesture when you are driving a car at fifty miles an hour. Otherwise, I should have done so.
He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers
the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.
the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.
The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet.
The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.
Vladimir specialized in grey studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page 380, when the muzhik decided to commit suicide.
As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt.
Filled with a coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was undisguisedly a bronchial white flag.
The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.
A depressing musty scent pervaded the place, as if a cheese had recently died there in painful circumstances.
I knew a chap who bumped his leg, and it turned black and had to be cut off at the knee.' 'You do seem to mix with the most extraordinary people.
He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts
Mr Pett, receiving her cold glance squarely between the eyes, felt as if he were being disembowelled by a clumsy amateur.
Tea, pa! said Charlotte, starting at the word like the old war-horse who hears the bugle; and we got down to it.
I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.
It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu?
Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.
Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.
A man who can set out in a cab for a fancy-dress ball and not get there is manifestly a poop of no common order.
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, So, you're back from Moscow, eh?
Aunt Agatha is like an elephant- not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.
Much has been written on the subject of bed-books. The general consensus of opinion is that a gentle, slow-moving story makes the best opiate
It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.
If it is bad to be all dressed up and no place to go, it is almost worse to be full of talk and to have no one to talk it to.
Anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit.
I suppose everyone has had that ghastly feeling at one time or another of being urged by some overwhelming force to do some absolutely blithering act.
Don't they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?' 'Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts.
I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.
It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.
She did not cease to look like a basilisk, but she began to look like a basilisk who has had a good lunch.
She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.
If she ever turned into a werewolf, it would be one of those jolly breezy werewolves whom it is a pleasure to know.
If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.'
'But she can't see a doctor now.'
'Why not?'
'She isn't well.
'But she can't see a doctor now.'
'Why not?'
'She isn't well.
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
...Cupid, who never shoots with a surer aim than through the steam of boarding-house hash, sniped him where he sat.