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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 07224cc | Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it." | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 30c7f91 | 'As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn't detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.' | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| a1f2154 | He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 25c0c15 | Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 7cd8b44 | At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said "Psst!" | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| b2a9cb4 | Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 7ea73db | He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| ddb1d64 | We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| e1fce3e | Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| c027063 | The female in question was a sloppy pest | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| fcc54ee | A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 6accb91 | My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 28f429e | She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| d535eb7 | The fellow with a face rather like a walnut." | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 466c207 | She loves this newt-nuzzling blister." | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 54ca66b | It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| d25860a | He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| b857aa8 | I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 802569c | It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 672dfa3 | Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 53e5dc5 | There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| e73693d | 'You know your Shelley, Bertie!''Oh, am I?' | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| c921b1f | his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 6f90fd1 | The Duke's moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| f42acec | Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. | Passion | ||
| df8b1d7 | He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| a808d90 | Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 976a9cd | His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 363de93 | Mere abuse is no criticism. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 4afe96a | He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| ec1198d | Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 94aedef | Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 0f14a05 | Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 589259e | Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 202d0a9 | 'Are you sure?' I said that sure was just what I wasn't anything but. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 22c92a0 | I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| ddf6bd9 | I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 6ff1273 | 'Stinko, is he?''Not perhaps stinko, but certainly effervescent.' | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| f02cd91 | 'And shove him into a dungeon with dripping walls and see to it that he is well gnawed by rats.' | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| af254f8 | His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 44a8747 | 'You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.' | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 3bc8009 | It just showed once again that half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| bc22ec5 | Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 5a5fc49 | She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters. | P. J. O'Rourke |