P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 2

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• Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

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  Fate, Boxing, Unseen

  P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

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  Life, Humorous, Dark

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Uneasy Money”, p.223, The Floating Press

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• Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

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  Eye, Son, Parent

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• As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

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  Might, Pops, Wells

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Wonderful Wodehouse 1: A Collection: The Inimitable Jeeves, Carry On Jeeves, Very Good Jeeves”, p.726, Random House

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• 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.

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  Depression, Men, Melancholy

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

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  Baby, Father, Sadness

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• My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

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  Love, Glasses, People

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• [He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.

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  Expression, Nephew, Wish

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• That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

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  Long, Succession, Just One

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “A Damsel in Distress”, p.196, The Floating Press

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• He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

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  Men, Chasing Rainbows, Legs

  1940 Eggs, Beans and Crumpets, 'Anselm Gets His Chance'.

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• If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

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  Men, Mind, Would Be

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• I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

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  Fate, Feelings, Fancy

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Wonderful Wodehouse 1: A Collection: The Inimitable Jeeves, Carry On Jeeves, Very Good Jeeves”, p.394, Random House

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• Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.

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  Cat, Egypt, Class

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• She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

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  Funny, Humor, Tunnels

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.25, Courier Dover Publications

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• She had more curves than a scenic railway

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  Curves, Railway, Scenic

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• The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.

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  Missing, Gist, Ears

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Right Ho, Jeeves (EasyRead Edition)”, p.133, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season

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  Food, Arms, Hips

  My Man Jeeves (1919) "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"

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• Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

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  Sober, Motto

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• One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.

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  Body, Next, Failing

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• He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

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  Dinner, Cyanide, Forgotten

  1925 Carry On, Jeeves,'Clustering Around Young Bingo'.

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• It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

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  Aunt, Use, Jeeves

  The Code of the Woosters (1938) ch. 2

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• Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.

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  Football, Strong, Mean

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• I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

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  Ideas, Lemons

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “A Wodehouse Miscellany: Articles & Stories”, p.74, Library of Alexandria

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• And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

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  Girl, Two, Brain

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “The Adventures of Sally (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.207, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

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  Two, Want, Different

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.29, Booklassic

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