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If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?
— P.G. Wodehouse
I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.
— P.G. Wodehouse
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Angela nearly got inhaled by a shark while aquaplaning.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Morning, Bill,' said Lord Tidmouth agreeably.'Go to hell!' said Bill.
'Right-ho,' said his lordship. — P.G. Wodehouse
The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.
— P.G. Wodehouse
There's no getting away from the fact that, if ever a man required watching, it's Steggles. Machiavelli could have taken his correspondence course.
— P.G. Wodehouse
a chap who's supposed to stop chaps pinching things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.
— P.G. Wodehouse
It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I sank into a chair and mopped the frontal bone. Not for many a long day had I been in such a doodah
— P.G. Wodehouse
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
— P.G. Wodehouse
It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.
— P.G. Wodehouse
At that moment the gong sounded, and the genial host came tumbling downstairs like the delivery of a ton of coals.
— P.G. Wodehouse
He is England's premier fiend in human shape.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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.
— P.G. Wodehouse
You can't be too careful how you stir up a policeman.
— P.G. Wodehouse
His manner had the offensive jauntiness of the man who has had a cold bath when he might just as easily have had a hot one.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts
— P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves," I said, when I had washed off the stains of travel, "tell me frankly all about it. Be as frank as Lady Bablockhythe.
— P.G. Wodehouse
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
— P.G. Wodehouse
It's a mystery to me how kidnappers ever get caught.
— P.G. Wodehouse
How did it all end?''Oh, I got away with my life. Still, what's life?'
'Life's all right. — P.G. Wodehouse
Aunt Agatha's demeanor now was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Routine is the death to heroism.
— P.G. Wodehouse
There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.
— P.G. Wodehouse
She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair
— P.G. Wodehouse
You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.
— P.G. Wodehouse
What magic there is in a girl's smile! It is the raisin which, dropped in the yeast of male complacency, induces fermentation.
— P.G. Wodehouse
She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.
— P.G. Wodehouse
You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description.
— P.G. Wodehouse
She's a sort of human vampire-bat
— P.G. Wodehouse
The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me.
— P.G. Wodehouse
What if he does think you the world's premier louse? Don't we all?
— P.G. Wodehouse
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I was in that painful condition which occurs when one has lost one's first wind and has not yet got one's second.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Not only had its expression, as he spoke of Pauline, been that of a stuffed frog with a touch of the Soul's Awakening about it, but it
— P.G. Wodehouse
Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The man was goggling. His entire map was suffused with a rich blush. He looked like the Soul's Awakening done in pink.
— P.G. Wodehouse
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.
— P.G. Wodehouse
He's such a dear, Mr. Garnet. A beautiful, pure, bred Persian. He has taken prizes.""He's always taking something - generally food. — P.G. Wodehouse
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
— P.G. Wodehouse
He picked up one of the dead bats and covered it with his handkerchief. 'Somebody's mother,' he murmured reverently.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.
— P.G. Wodehouse
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
— P.G. Wodehouse
A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!
— P.G. Wodehouse
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I'm dashed if I know what's going to happen to me. I am the thingummy of what's-its-name." "You look it," said Mike.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
— P.G. Wodehouse
This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Mere abuse is no criticism.
— P.G. Wodehouse
These dreamer types do live, don't they?
— P.G. Wodehouse
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.
— P.G. Wodehouse
she was usually keenly susceptible to weather conditions and reveled in sunshine like a kitten.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I don't know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they're only studying for it, always appear to run to surplus poundage.
— P.G. Wodehouse
P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
— Michael Moorcock
It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.
— P.G. Wodehouse
He looked like a vulture dissatisfied with its breakfast corpse.
— P.G. Wodehouse
cats on hot bricks could take hints from me
— P.G. Wodehouse
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
— P.G. Wodehouse
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
— P.G. Wodehouse
As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.
— P.G. Wodehouse
It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
— P.G. Wodehouse
There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.
— P.G. Wodehouse
In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Between an egg that is fried and an egg that is cremated there is a wide and substantial difference.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Gussie opened his vaudeville career
— P.G. Wodehouse
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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.
— P.G. Wodehouse
