P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 6

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• I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Heart, Married, Braces

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “How Right You Are, Jeeves”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• -'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Ties, Matter, Jeeves

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Work, Names, Bob

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Psmith, Journalist”, p.248, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Looks, May

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Nothing Serious”, Everyman Paperback Classics

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• The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Father, Humorous, Eggs

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• Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  League, Hot, Hey

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• Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  World, Proof, Courses

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• I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself if it is all right as a story. I mean, once you go saying to yourself, 'This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay,' you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Believe, Character, Mean

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• The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Country, Light, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.56, Random House

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• She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case. She's a drooper.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Baby, Stars

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Giving, Littles, Bits

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• This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide. . . . Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Suicide, Country, Heart

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• When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Love, Girl, Bombs

  "Summer Lightning". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1929.

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• She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Attitude, Would Be, Obliged

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.152, The Floating Press

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sunshine, Scotland, Rays

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

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• If he had a mind, there was something on it.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Mind, Ifs

  P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.289, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Smoking, Criticism

  P. G. Wodehouse (1990). “The Cat-Nappers”, HarperCollins

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• 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

  Dog, Looks, Nasty

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Three, Caddies

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Ideas, Debtors, Good Times

  P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Love Among the Chickens”, p.124, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Hair, Jeeves, Wells

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Joy in the Morning: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.181, Random House

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• 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

  Blow, Rabbits, Top Hats

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• I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, 'Which are my big scenes?' and then get every drop of juice out of them. The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Character, Writing

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• He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cousin, Animal, Air

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• 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

  Girl, Sex, Children

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