P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on Wodehouse
-
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
-
He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.
-
Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
-
Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.
-
Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.
-
A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
-
There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.
-
'I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.'
-
Aunt Agatha is like an elephant-not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.
-
On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of aunts, even if those of another, was an unnerving one. Reminding myself that in this life it is not aunts that matter, but the courage that one brings to them, I pulled myself together.
-
I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.