675 Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse

I tried to utter, but could not. The tongue had got all tangled up with the uvula, and the brain seemed paralyzed. I was feeling the same stunned feeling which, I imagine, Chichester Clam must have felt as the door of the potting shed slammed and he heard Boko starting to yodel without – a nightmare sensation of being but a helpless pawn in the hands of Fate.

It is madness to come to country houses without one’s bottle of Mickey Finns.

The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.

If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?

I felt as if I had stepped on the place where the last stair ought to have been, but wasn’t.

What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them?

She laughed – a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.

Tricky devils, these novelists. The ink gets into their heads.

Lady Blunt had come up, flushed and triumphant, having left the solitary porter a demoralized wreck.