675 Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse

You know, with the most charitable feelings towards him, there are moments when you can’t help thinking that young Bingo ought to be in some sort of a home.

I was exercised about the poor fish, as I am about all my pals, close or distant, who find themselves treading upon Life’s banana skins.

It was the look which Ajax had in his eyes when he defied the lightning, the look which nervous husbands have when they announce their intention of going round the corner to bowl a few games with the boys. One could not say definitely that Lord Marshmoreton looked pop-eyed. On the other hand, one could not assert truthfully that he did not.

I will be your wife, Bertie.’ There didn’t seem much to say to this except ‘Oh, thanks.

I knew a chap who bumped his leg, and it turned black and had to be cut off at the knee.’ ‘You do seem to mix with the most extraordinary people.

A hoarse shout from within and a small china ornament whizzing past my head informed me that my old friend was at home.

How’s the weather, Jeeves?’ ‘Exceptionally clement, sir.

It’s half the battle to get a line on the adored object’s favourite literature. Mug it up and decant an excerpt and she’s all over you. Next moment Freddie was hareing off for a Collected Works of Tennyson. Relieved, because, girls being ehat they are, it might easily have been Shelley or even Browning.

Her lips were tightly glued together, her chin protruding, her whole layout that of a girl who intended to stand no rannygazoo.