“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“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, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“Jeeves," I said. "A rummy communication has arrived. From Mr. Glossop."
"Indeed, sir?"
"I will read it to you. Handed in at Upper Bleaching. Message runs as follows:
When you come tomorrow, bring my football boots. Also, if humanly possible, Irish water-spaniel. Urgent. Regards. Tuppy.
"What do you make of that, Jeeves?"
"As I interpret the document, sir, Mr. Glossop wishes you, when you come tomorrow, to bring his football boots. Also, if humanly possible, an Irish water-spaniel. He hints that the matter is urgent, and sends his regards."
"Yes, that is how I read it. But why football boots?"
"Perhaps Mr. Glossop wishes to play football, sir.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“One more toot--just one single, solitary suggestion of the faintest shadow or suspicion of anything remotely approaching a toot--and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“There's no doubt about it, being a policeman warps a man's mind and ruins that sunny faith in his fellow human beings which is the foundation of a lovable character. There seems to be no way of avoiding this.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“Remember what the poet Shakespeare said, Jeeves? 'Exit hurriedly, pursued by a bear.' You'll find it in one of his plays.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“One of the first lessons life teaches us is that on these occasions of back-chat between the delicately-natured, a man should retire into the offing, curl up in a ball, and imitate the prudent tactics of the opossum, which, when danger is in the air, pretends to be dead, frequently going to the length of hanging out crêpe and instructing its friends to gather round and say what a pity it all is.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“Why has the car stopped?"
"Ah!" I said with manly frankness that became me well. "There you have me."
You see, I'm one of those birds who drive a lot but don't know the first thing about the works. The policy I pursue is to get aboard, prod the self-starter, and leave the rest to Nature. If anything goes wrong, I scream for an A.A. scout. It's a system that answers admirably as a rule, but on the present occasion it blew a fuse owing to the fact that there wasn't an A.A. scout within miles.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“I have always had a suspicion that Aunt Dahlia, while invariably matey and bonhomous and seeming to take pleasure in my society, has a lower opinion of my intelligence than I quite like. Too often it is her practice to address me as ‘fathead’, and if I put forward any little thought or idea or fancy in her hearing it is apt to be greeted with the affectionate but jarring guffaw.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
“You know how it is. Love's flame flickers and dies, reason returns to her throne, and you aren't nearly as ready to hop about and jump through hoops as in the first pristine glow of the divine passion.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Very Good, Jeeves!
P.G. Wodehouse
Born place: in Guildford, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom
Born date October 15, 1881
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“You were a soldier?"
"Yes, sir."
"You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle."
"My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen."
"Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Princess of the Midnight Ball
“Royce nodded. “Invest in crossbows. Next time stay hidden and just put a couple bolts into each of your target’s chests. All this talking is just stupid.”
“Royce!” Hadrian admonished.
“What? You’re always saying I should be nicer to people. I’m trying to be helpful.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, quote from Theft of Swords
“Fuck you very much, if you think we’re gonna let you do this on your own, Reichen.”
― Lara Adrian, quote from Ashes of Midnight
“Battles can alter history. He did not sound pleased with it. The trouble is, sometimes you cannot say how history will be changed until it is too late.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from Winter's Heart
“You can’t get any ‘cooler’ than Disney World.”
― Ridley Pearson, quote from Disney after Dark
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