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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8455cfd | The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| a2fee27 | Nothing upsets a fowl more than having to wait for dinner. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 5ce6686 | He had never measured a footprint in his life, and what he did not know about bloodstains would have filled a library. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| a141b8b | It's a hell for the poor, in New York. An iron, grinding city. It frightens you. It's so big and hard and cruel. It takes the fight out of you. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 0f15c0f | I see no percentage in your being alive. I wish you were a corpse, preferably a mangled one. I should like to dance on your remains. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| f3666a5 | I hope that this will be a lesson to you not to go to fancy-dress balls as a lizard. If fewer people went about the place pretending to be lizards, this would be a better and sweeter world. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| d51c0cb | He was really only a sort of detective, a species | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| e364dba | I have no doubt that you could have flung bricks by the hour in England's most densely populated districts without endangering the safety of a single girl capable of becoming Mrs. Augustus Fink-Nottle without an anaesthetic. | humour marriage | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| f12cd24 | It is the saddest spectacle in the world, that of the crowd collected by a 'Wanted' advertisement. They are so palpably not wanted by any one for any purpose whatsoever; yet every time they gather together with a sort of hopeful hopelessness. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 90d9984 | I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 1771e2e | Mary, in these days, simply couldn't see that he was on the earth. She looked round him, above him, and through him, but never at him; | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 903fb3c | It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence. It was about four inches high and six long. Its back opened on a hinge. Its tail was arched, so that the tip touched the spine-.. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| c62cf56 | 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. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 2027eb9 | Jeeves' eyes had taken on the look of cautious reserve which you see in those of parrots, when offered half a banana by a stranger of whose bona fides they are not convinced. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 1e16f94 | No burglar wastes his time burgling authors. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 293d811 | Boko looked at me, and raised his eyebrows. I looked at Boko, and raised my eyebrows. Nobby looked at us both, and raised her eyebrows. Then we looked at Stilton, and all raised our eyebrows. It was one of those big eyebrow-raising mornings. | jeeves | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 5508941 | We all shook hands, and the policeman, having retrieved a piece of chewing-gum from the underside of a chair, where he had parked it against a rainy day, went off into a corner and began to contemplate the infinite. | dry-humour humour policemen | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 5bb2bae | You can't expect an empty aunt to beam like a full aunt. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 8890cb4 | I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers." "I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said. "Then, for a beginner," I said, "you do it dashed well." | humor humour jeeves jeeves-and-wooster retort | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 7d8cb89 | I'm not much of a ladies' man, but on this particular morning it seemed to me that what I really wanted was some charming girl to buzz up and ask me to save her from assassins or something. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 7cde0be | Sir Roderick Glossop, Honoria's father, is always called a nerve specialist, because it sounds better, but everybody knows that he's a sort of janitor to the looney-bin. I mean to say, when your uncle the Duke begins to feel the strain a bit and you find him in the blue drawing room sticking straws in his hair, old Glossop is the first person you send for. ... Practically every posh family in the country has called him in at one time or ano.. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 6269564 | It was a morning when all nature shouted "Fore!" The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip-shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky; and the sun, peeping above the trees, looked like a giant golf-ball perfectly lofted by the mashie of some unseen god and about .. | humour | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 29bec36 | man who forgets what day he was married, when he's been married one year, will forget, at about the end of the fourth, that he's married at | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| b805f37 | you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first. This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 835d244 | There are, of course, three ways to hide behind a sofa. | jeeves-and-wooster | Ben Schott | |
| 3b4df58 | I've just become a Socialist. It's a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the equal distribution of property, and start by collaring all you can and sitting on it. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 14fdce1 | Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-who-like-to-be-left-alone- to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| e7c3b9c | The train began to give up its contents, now in ones and twos, now in a steady stream. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| e6cdf2c | This woman always made Freddie feel as if he were being disembowelled by some clumsy amateur. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| a5e6586 | Lord Emsworth had one of those minds capable of accommodating but one thought at a time--if that. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 3fe5ee6 | I mean, if you fool about too long at the start, trying to establish atmosphere, as they call it, and all that sort of rot, you fail to grip and the customers walk out on you. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 64cffca | How sharper than a serpent's tooth, I remember Jeeves saying once, it is to have a thankless child, and it isn't a dashed sight better having a thankless aunt. | humor | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| e62ffef | Personally I couldn't manage it. I don't think I ever saw a child who made me feel less sentimental. He was one of those round, bulging kids. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 60379e1 | NOW, touching this business of old Jeeves - my man, you know - how do we stand? Lots of people think I'm much too dependent on him. My Aunt Agatha, in fact, has even gone so far as to call him my keeper. Well, what I say is: Why not? The man's a genius. | jeeves jeeves-and-wooster wodehouse wooster | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 9c159a3 | How often in this life a mere accident may shape our whole future! | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| b607903 | I felt as if I had stepped on the place where the last stair ought to have been, but wasn't. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 04a9cea | But then everybody says that, though you have a brain like a peahen, you're the soul of kindness and generosity.' Well, I was handicapped here by the fact that, never having met a peahen, I was unable to estimate the quality of these fowls' intelligence, but she had spoken as if they were a bit short of the grey matter, and I was about the ask her who the hell she meant by 'everybody', when she resumed. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| afd6bb6 | But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is." "Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir." "He's supposed to be one of the best men in London." "I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| f3db214 | In all these years we've been together," he said, "I don't think I know an important part of you. You keep secrets inside you. You hide. It's as though I've never seen you naked, and I've had to imagine what you look like behind the drapes." "I'm not consciously hiding anything." After Ruth said that, she wondered whether it was true. Then again, who revealed everything - the irritations, the fears? How tiresome that would be. What did he m.. | Amy Tan | ||
| 8664b2d | Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")" -- | cancer inspiration insurance intro introduction medical-insurance | Amy Tan | |
| baba3e0 | How can I argue with someone who makes no sense? | Amy Tan | ||
| bb0df5f | Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself in the river, and I don't want his ghost visiting to keep telling me he's sorry. | melancholy sorry | Amy Tan | |
| 34e6e73 | Entonces debes ensenarle esta misma leccion a mi hija. Como perder la inocencia pero no la esperanza. Como reir eternamente. | Amy Tan | ||
| 0a565fc | A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery. | psychiatrists suffering | Amy Tan |