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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1813abf | But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 773a6a6 | Brookfield, my correspondent, writes that last week he observed him in the moonlight at an advanced hour gazing up at his window." "Whose window? Brookfield's?" "Yes, sir. Presumably under the impression that it was the young lady's." "But what the deuce is he doing at Twing at all?" "Mr Little was compelled to resume his old position as tutor to Lord Wickhammersley's son at Twing Hall, sir. Owing to having been unsuccessful in some specula.. | jeeves | P G Wodehouse | |
| d356ddd | Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 1463888 | Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? It's like collaborating with a man you dislike.... | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 31fcfb0 | I suppose the cave-woman sometimes felt rather relieved when everything was settled for her with a club, but I'm sure the caveman must have had a hard time ridding himself of the thought that he had behaved like a cad and taken a mean advantage. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 652cb3d | But, Bill, old scout, your sister says there's a most corking links near here." He turned and stared at me, and nearly ran us into the bank. "You don't mean honestly she said that?" "She said you said it was better than St. Andrews." "So I did. Was that all she said I said?" "Well, wasn't it enough?" "She didn't happen to mention that I added the words, 'I don't think'?" | white-lies | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| bf4ad96 | the way love can change a fellow is really frightful to contemplate. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| b058c7c | She is a waitress at his lordships club. My God! The Proletariat! | P G Wodehouse | ||
| 8153116 | The blighter's manner was so cold and unchummy that I bit the bullet and had a dash at being airy. | jeeves | P G Wodehouse | |
| 8595648 | The silly ass had left the kitchen door open, and I hadn't gone two steps when his voice caught me squarely in the eardrum. 'You will find Mr Wooster', he was saying to the substitue chappie, 'an extremely pleasant and amiable young gentleman, but not intelligent. By no means intelligent. Mentally he is negligible - quite negligible'. | P G Wodehouse | ||
| 0916d8d | six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 390a871 | I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you know; | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 2356b24 | When you are discovered by a householder--with revolver--in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for granted. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 0ecbdda | When you are discovered by a householder--with revolver--in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for granted. The side of your character that should be advertised in such a crisis is the non-burglarious. Allusion should be made to the fact that, as a child, you attended Sunday school regularly, and to what t.. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| dea73a5 | He will lunch with you at your flat tomorrow at one-thirty. Please remember that he drinks no wine, strongly disapproves of smoking, and can only eat the simplest food, owing to an impaired digestion. Do not offer him coffee, for he considers it the root of half the nerve-trouble in the world." "I should think a dog-biscuit and a glass of water would about meet the case, what?" "Bertie!" | jeeves | P G Wodehouse | |
| 3f3729b | What are you giving us? | jeeves | P G Wodehouse | |
| ef7ec7e | They're soul mates. She has about as much brain as a retarded billiards ball, and he approximately the same. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 529da65 | The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 98350b3 | He must be provided with a claque. It will be your task, Jeeves, | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 762587e | Excuse me, I must go and putt | british comedy english english-society golf putt putting | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| a7c845f | 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. She had | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 4584c50 | The wretched man seemed fully conscious of his position. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 21efd27 | peculiarity of golf, as of love, that it temporarily changes the natures of its victims; | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| beaa1bf | Most of the Marois Bay scenery is simply made as a setting for the nursing of a wounded heart. The cliffs are a sombre indigo, sinister and forbidding; and even on the finest days the sea has a curious sullen look. You have only to get away from the crowd near the bathing-machines and reach one of these small coves and get your book against a rock and your pipe well alight, and you can simply wallow in misery. I have done it myself. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 4ea1421 | Morning, Bill,' said Lord Tidmouth agreeably. | good-morning morning | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| a9567a5 | Gussie opened his vaudeville career | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 5205812 | She did drive me in the Park the other day. I thought it rather a hopeful | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 76dae41 | Still, he could balance himself with one hand on an inverted ginger-ale bottle while revolving a barrel on the soles of his feet. There is good in all of us. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 7fe78f5 | cannot be muzzled! | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| ebd4af6 | Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the air in the direction of her brother's head. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 469a295 | It sometimes seems to me that in this life we've all got to have trouble sooner or later, and some of us gets it bit by bit, spread out thin, so to speak, and a few of us gets it in a lump--biff! | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 444db60 | Lady Kimbuck's eyes gleamed. She took the package eagerly. She never lost an opportunity of reading compromising letters. She enjoyed them as literature, and there was never any knowing when they might come in useful. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 3a4e86b | He returned with the tissue-restorer. I loosed it down the hatch, and after undergoing the passing discomfort, unavoidable when you drink Jeeves's patent morning revivers, of having the top of the skull fly up to the ceiling and the eyes shoot out of their sockets and rebound from the opposite wall like racquet balls, felt better. It | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 96a51e9 | And what," he inquired" | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 073af22 | Let us say, then, that at some point--five, ten, fifteen, or it may have been twenty minutes later--I became aware of somebody coughing softly at my side like a respectful sheep trying to attract the attention of its shepherd, and with how can I describe what thankfulness and astonishment I perceived Jeeves. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 6898a0e | The snail was on the wing and the lark on the thorn - or, rather, the other way around - and God was in His heaven and all right with the world. And presently the eyes closed, the muscles relaxed, the breathing became soft and regular, and sleep, which does something which has slipped my mind to the something sleeve of care, poured over me in a healing wave. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| e95463c | 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. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| f3853df | It may work, Jeeves. It is, at least, worth trying. I shall now leave you, to prepare myself for the ordeal before me with silent meditation.' 'Your tea will be here in a moment, sir.' 'No, Jeeves. This is no time for tea. I must concentrate. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| f8ff690 | The effect now was much the same as if I had been listening in to a dramatic sketch on the wireless. I got the voices, but I missed the play of expression. And I'd have given a lot to be able to see it. Not Jeeves's, of course, because Jeeves never has any. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| d9643b6 | Of course I think so. Have you forgotten what I told you the other day?' 'Yes,' said Lord Emsworth. He always forgot what people told him the other day. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 583b63e | You should have seen him. Such a kind smile. He said you would be delighted to help me.' 'He did, eh?' 'He spoke most highly of you.' 'Really?' 'Oh, yes, he thinks a lot of you. I remember his very words. "Mr Wooster, miss," he said, "is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible, but he has a heart of gold." He said that as he was lowering me from the side of the boat by a rope, having first made sure that the coast was clear. I couldn't dive,.. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 7599c66 | If you see a man asking for trouble, and insisting on getting it, the only thing to do is to stand by and wait till it comes to him. After that you may get a chance. But till then there's nothing to be done. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| b90e71e | Life in the country, with its lack of intellectual stimulus, has caused his natural feebleness of mind to reach a stage which borders closely on insanity. His | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 014fac8 | I was back at the flat so quick that I nearly met myself coming out. | P.G. Wodehouse |