There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action. P. G. Wodehouse More Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse More Quotes From P. G. Wodehouse She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. P. G. Wodehouse tunnels humor funny We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. P. G. Wodehouse roof old-friends tree I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir? P. G. Wodehouse jeeves voice want You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift. P. G. Wodehouse leaving party guy I expect I shall feel better after tea. P. G. Wodehouse feel-better tea feels Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. P. G. Wodehouse humorous food memories It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. P. G. Wodehouse aunt passion strong In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well. P. G. Wodehouse meaning-well powerful looks A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. P. G. Wodehouse medicine trying men As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire. P. G. Wodehouse dancer He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch. P. G. Wodehouse prometheus dropping lunch He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes. P. G. Wodehouse bed feelings sometimes Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests! P. G. Wodehouse asbestos vests thinking I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much. P. G. Wodehouse rotten taken brain I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip like the bite of a horse. "Did you say 'Oh yes?'" he asked. "Oh no," I assured him. P. G. Wodehouse horse boys hands The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed. P. G. Wodehouse wine heart thinking His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning. P. G. Wodehouse aspect light men You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop. P. G. Wodehouse sparring-partner curls would-be They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name. P. G. Wodehouse eggs names two I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism. P. G. Wodehouse insomnia morning past
