P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Dinner, Cyanide, Forgotten

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

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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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Food, Arms, Hips

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

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• 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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Iron, Demand, Circumstances

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• Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Miles, Intoxicated

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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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Football, Strong, Mean

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• What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Yield, Cities, Temptation

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.29, Booklassic

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• Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Speaks French, Looks

  "The Luck of the Bodkins". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1935.

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• the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Kindness, Milk, Gallons

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• 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

  Butterfly, Golf, Upset

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.128, The Floating Press

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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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• I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Names, Fundamentals, Success In Life

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• If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Gentleman, Conversation, Endless

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• Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Speed, Bigs, Slabs

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Ideas, Lemons

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

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• 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?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Moscow, Might, Mets

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Mike: A Public School Story: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Voice, Feelings, Spokes

  1938 The Code of the Woosters, ch.1.

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• When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Laughing

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• She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Might, Moments, Ibsen

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Summer Lightning: (Blandings Castle)”, p.120, Random House

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• It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

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  Sunshine, Scotland, Rays

  'Blandings Castle and Elsewhere' (1935) 'The Custody of the Pumpkin'

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• One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours´ sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Memories, Sleep, Night

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Something New: Or, Something Fresh”, p.192, The Floating Press

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• Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.' Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.' He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.' I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Men, Order

  P. G. Wodehouse (2004). “Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• ...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Fate, Rocks, Feelings

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Full Moon: (Blandings Castle)”, p.214, Random House

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• Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Something New”, p.181, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Uncles, Discovery, Medicine

  The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) ch. 16

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• As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Depression, Sight, Appearance

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.76, Booklassic

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