I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves. P. G. Wodehouse More Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse More Quotes From P. G. Wodehouse Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life. P. G. Wodehouse young-friends names long What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation. P. G. Wodehouse jeeves goes-on conversation Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew over. A dashed pretty and lively and attractive girl, mind you, but full of ideals and all that. I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon. So what with one thing and another the jolly old frenzy sort of petered out, and now we're just pals. I think she's a topper, and she thinks me next door to a looney, so everything's nice and matey. P. G. Wodehouse nice girl thinking Mere abuse is no criticism. P. G. Wodehouse mere abuse criticism Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped. P. G. Wodehouse lambs wells The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass. P. G. Wodehouse whiskers glasses giving I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me. P. G. Wodehouse unseen ifs hands There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie. P. G. Wodehouse crazy ifs I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis. P. G. Wodehouse psalms silent names At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter a fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack. P. G. Wodehouse “As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.” P. G. Wodehouse To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time. P. G. Wodehouse Henry glanced hastily at the mirror. Yes, he did look rather old. He must have overdone some of the lines on his forehead. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble. P. G. Wodehouse For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been! P. G. Wodehouse Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. P. G. Wodehouse His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely happy one. He never experienced the thrill of ambition fulfilled, but, on the other hand, he never knew the agony of ambition frustrated.... P. G. Wodehouse The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic. P. G. Wodehouse Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. P. G. Wodehouse restaurant best memories funny He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!' P. G. Wodehouse say who clothes forgotten
