4 P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on History

P. G. Wodehouse quotes on history

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.)

7. The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.

126. Whatever may be said in favour of the Victorians, it is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

160. Nannie Bruce, a tall, gangling light-heavyweight with a suggestion in her appearance of a private in the Grenadiers dressed up to play the title role in Charley's Aunt, was one of those doggedly faithful retainers who adhere to almost all old families like barnacles to the hulls of ships...She was as much a fixture as the stone lions or the funny smell in the attic.