Quote #4

'Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,' murmured Psmith. (No earlier usage of the precise words 'Elementary, my dear Watson' has yet been found, even in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.)

More from P. G. Wodehouse

  1. Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'.(quoting John Greenleaf Whittier)
  2. 'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
  3. It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of t…
  4. His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely h…
  5. Routine is the death to heroism.
  6. The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the i…
  7. At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public e…
  8. 'As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn't detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.'

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