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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ee274f4 | I give you my word that, until I started to tramp the place with this child, I never had a notion that it was such a difficult job restoring a son to his parents. How kidnappers ever get caught is a mystery to me. I searched Marvis Bay like a bloodhound, but nobody came forward to claim the infant. You would have thought, from the lack of interest in him, that he was stopping there all by himself in a cottage of his own. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| a151e1d | In love with me. Don't be absurd." "My dear old thing, you don't know young Bingo. He can fall in love with anybody." "Thank you!" "Oh, I didn't mean it that way, you know. I don't wonder at his taking to you. Why, I was in love with you myself once." "Once? Ah! And all that remains now are the cold ashes? This isn't once of your tactful evenings, Bertie." "Well, my dear sweet thing, dash it all, considering that you gave me the bird and ne.. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| e1d95c0 | Do you realise that about two hundred of Twing's heftiest are waiting for you outside to chuck you into the pond?" "No!" "Absolutely!" | jeeves | P G Wodehouse | |
| 13dd881 | I've been through a bad time, Bertie, these last weeks. The sun ceased to shine - " "That's curious. We've had gorgeous weather in London." "The birds ceased to sing." "What birds?" "What the devil does it matter what birds?" said young BIngo, with some asperity. "Any birds. The birds round about here. You don't expect me to specify them by their pet names, do you? I tell you, Bertie, it hit me hard at first, very hard." "What hit you?" I s.. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 76b3e0e | Sex attraction is so purely a question of the taste of the individual that the wise man never argues about it. He accepts its vagaries as part of the human mystery, and leaves it at that. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 02f7d6c | beggars approached the task of trying to persuade perfect strangers to bear the burden of their maintenance with that optimistic vim which makes all the difference. It was one of those happy mornings. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 2dea6a3 | Properly cared for, a Savile Row suit can be handed down the generations--like gout. | humor savile-row tailoring | Ben Schott | |
| 5460a4a | He made a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage, | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| c4d6e9a | When Nature makes a chump like dear old Bobbie, she's proud of him, and doesn't want her handiwork disturbed. She gives him a sort of natural armour to protect him against outside interference. And that armour is shortness of memory. Shortness of memory keeps a man a chump, when, but for it, he might cease to be one. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 18c008b | I don't mind people talking rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 6761779 | I'm bound to say I was not feeling entirely at my ease. There is something about the man that is calculated to strike terror into the stoutest heart. If ever there was a bloke at the very mention of whose name it would be excusable for people to tremble like aspens, that bloke is Sir Roderick Glossop. He has an enormous bald head, all the hair which ought to be on it seeming to have run into his eyebrows, and his eyes go through you like a .. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| abf0939 | He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| fac2a66 | She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| acfa552 | I don't get your drift." "I will continue snowing." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| aa80b4a | You don't get any five shillings out of me.' 'Oh, all right.' He sat silent for a space. 'Things happen to guys that don't kick in their protection money,' he said dreamily. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 26d8ed5 | I call it rotten work, springing unexpected offspring on a fellow at the eleventh hour like this. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 7e5c13c | Experience, dearly bought in the days of his residence at the University, had taught him that when the Law gripped you with its talons the only thing to do was to give a false name, say nothing and hope for the best. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 85d54bb | Mr Pett, receiving her cold glance squarely between the eyes, felt as if he were being disembowelled by a clumsy amateur. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| e1b6327 | I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 7cc1fda | For a time the broken heart, and then suddenly the healing conviction that one is jolly well out of it. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| dc968ae | He's only got two sides, a bad side and a worse side, | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 4c3c5df | You go away and have a nice cup of hot tea,' said the agent, soothingly, 'and you'll be as right as anything in the morning. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| daafaae | I wish people wouldn't tell me I can't do things. | uncle-fred | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| c399f74 | I ordered another. If this was going to be a fish-story, I needed stimulants. "On the liner going to New York I met a girl." Biffy made a sort of curious gulping noise not unlike a bulldog trying to swallow half a cutlet in a hurry so as to be ready for the other half. "Bertie, old man, I can't describe her. I simply can't describe her." This was all to the good." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 1f5f527 | I will be your wife, Bertie.' There didn't seem much to say to this except 'Oh, thanks. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 4f8c23e | You know, with the most charitable feelings towards him, there are moments when you can't help thinking that young Bingo ought to be in some sort of a home. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 3d74bbc | She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage society or a league for the suppression of eggs. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 24cc8ff | Trouble, after all, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 74e2a55 | I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true. | Amy Tan | ||
| 0f1ee3a | Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening. | listening | Amy Tan | |
| 703c4bc | The farther you move from the core of the problem, the faster the situation spins out of control. | Amy Tan | ||
| 42e78bc | What do you think was the very first sound to become a word, a meaning?' ... And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin. | Amy Tan | ||
| 5d0fd82 | Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can. | life hundred-secret-senses asian-american | Amy Tan | |
| 3950702 | I was greedy, she warned, and could not fill my heart with enough pleasure, my stomach with enough contentment, my body with enough sleep. I was like a rice basket with a rat hole at the bottom, and thus could not be satisfied and overflow, nor could I be filled. I would never know the full depth and breadth of love, beauty, or happiness. She said it like a curse. | Amy Tan | ||
| 88f5e7a | Everybody looked down on someone else. It didn't matter that everybody shared the same sidewalk to spit on and suffered the same fast-moving diarrhea. We all had the same stink, but everybody complained someone else smelled the worst. | Amy Tan | ||
| 691323e | He saw all those private aspects of me - and I mean not just sexual private parts, but my darker side, my meanness, my pettiness, my self-loathing - all the things I kept hidden. So that with him I was completely naked, and when I was feeling the most vulnerable - when the wrong word would have sent me flying out the door forever - he always said exactly the right thing at the right moment. He didn't allow me to cover myself up. He would gr.. | Amy Tan | ||
| 47f8d3d | Even when I worked in that world, I still wanted love so strong that the man would have no interest in another woman. Maybe you will always be incapable of giving that kind of love. You tell me I want too much. And maybe I do. But like you and your imagination, I can't help but be that way. | men women love loyalty | Amy Tan | |
| 4136934 | Memory, in fact, gives you no choice over which moments you can erase, and it is annoyingly persistent in retaining the most painful ones. It is extraordinarily faithful in recording the most hideous details, and it will recall them for you in the future with moments that are even only vaguely similar. | Amy Tan | ||
| 75c509c | When you are told, "It was meant to be," ask, "Who meant it? What does it really mean?" Is someone trying to make you accept an undesirable situation or one in which you have doubts? When you are told, "Shit happens," remember that plenty of other things happen as well, such as generosity, forgiveness, ambiguity, and uncertainty. When you are told, "It's simply fate," ask yourself, "What is simple about it? What are the alternatives of fate.. | Amy Tan | ||
| c926ea9 | I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me. | lindo-jong the-joy-luck-club | Amy Tan | |
| 758e331 | i'm not saying fate happens without blame. but when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here. | Amy Tan | ||
| 46982c4 | Every word, every gesture is now loaded with ambiguity, nothing can be taken at face value. We speak to each other from a safe distance, pretending all the years we soaped each other's backs and pissed in front of each other never happened. We don't use any of the baby talk, code words, or short hand gestures that had been our language of intimacy, the proof that we belonged to each other. | Amy Tan | ||
| 03c2f4e | This is the kind of China you Americans always see in the movies - the poor countryside, people wearing big hats to protect themselves from the sun. No, I never wore a hat like that! I was from Shanghai. That's like thinking someone from San Francisco wears a cowboy hat and rides a horse. Ridiculous! | Amy Tan | ||
| c4f523f | Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only | Amy Tan |