675 Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse

The last few minutes of waiting in a cupboard are always the hardest.

I don’t mind people talking rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot.

Boko looked at me, and raised his eyebrows. I looked at Boko, and raised my eyebrows. Nobby looked at us both, and raised her eyebrows. Then we looked at Stilton, and all raised our eyebrows. It was one of those big eyebrow-raising mornings.

Why don’t you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

I am going to start at the bottom and work my way still further down.

A little bit added to what you’ve already got gives you a little bit more.

The sun, taken in as usual by the never-failing practical joke of the Daylight Saving Act, had only just set, and a golden afterglow lingered on the fields as the car which had met the train purred over the two miles of country road that separated the little town from the castle.

That’s always the way in this world. The chappies you’d like to lend money to won’t let you, whereas the chappies you don’t want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.

I call it rotten work, springing unexpected offspring on a fellow at the eleventh hour like this.