P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 13

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• I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, Bird, Toppings

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.3, Booklassic

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• We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  People, Letters, Insult

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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• Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Looks, World, Providence

  "Aunts Omnibus".

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• Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Golf, Gambling

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Impact, Roots, Moustache

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• They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Real, Golf, Excellence

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  May, Matter, Scripture

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Right Ho, Jeeves (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.183, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, America, Bed

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.145, Booklassic

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• Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Love Is, Needs, Calling

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Bertie Wooster Sees It Through”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  War, Hands, Baths

  "Uncle Fred in the Springtime". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1939.

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