P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

• Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat.

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• I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demean our was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.

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• Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don’t hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

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• In this matter of shimmering into rooms the chappie is rummy to a degree… He moves from point to point with as little uproar as a jellyfish.

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• ‘What ho!’ I said. ‘What ho!’ said Motty. ‘What ho! What ho!’ ‘What ho! What ho! What ho!’ After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

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• What with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation and what-not, the afternoon passed quite happily.

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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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• An English peer of the right sort can be bored nearer to the point where mortification sets in, without showing it, than anyone else in the world.

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• Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

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• There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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• I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

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• I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don’t you know, if you see what I mean.

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

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• Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

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• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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• In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

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• I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

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• The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

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• The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

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• I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

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P. G. Wodehouse (60)

Birth:	15th October, 1881
Death:	14th February, 1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Humorist, Lyricist, Novelist, Playwriter

About

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English humorist whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of a pre- and post-World War I English upper class society, reflecting his birth, education and youthful writing career.

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