3 P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on Irony

P. G. Wodehouse quotes on irony

13. And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

41. A certain critic-for such men, I regret to say, do exist-made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names'. He has probably now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled this man by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy. (From preface)

191. As he reached the end of the carpet and was about to turn and pace back again, he stopped abruptly with one foot in the air, looking so like The Soul's Awakening that a seasoned art critic would have been deceived.