“Mr Little is certainly warm-hearted, sir." "Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“She said I would find Oswald out in the grounds, and such is a mother's love that she spoke as if that… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Never mind," I said crisply. "I have my methods." I dug out my entire stock of manly courage, breathed a short prayer… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers." "I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said. "Then, for a beginner," I… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“There's no getting away from the fact that, if ever a man required watching, it's Steggles. Machiavelli could have taken his correspondence… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The man was goggling. His entire map was suffused with a rich blush. He looked like the Soul's Awakening done in pink.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Mr Wingham has the advantage of being on the premises. He and the young lady play duets after dinner, which acts as… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Tell him my future is in his hands and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on me, even… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The blighter's manner was so cold and unchummy that I bit the bullet and had a dash at being airy. "Oh, well,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Bertie, it is imperative that you marry." "But, dash it all..." "Yes! You should be breeding children to..." "No, really, I say,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Bertie, old man," said young Bingo earnestly, "for the last two weeks I've been comforting the sick to such an extent that,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Take it for all in all, a representative gathering of Twing life and thought. The Nibs were whispering in a pleased manner… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“What are you giving us?" "Cold consomme, a cutlet, and a savoury, sir. With lemon-squash, iced." "Well, I don't see how that… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“She is very wonderful, Bertie. She is not one of these flippant, shallow-minded, modern girls. She is sweetly grave and beautifully earnest.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Yes, by damn! It's too bad!" cried the whiskered marvel. "You careless old woman! You give my hotel bad names, would you… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove." "So I have been informed, sir." "Right ho! Then bring… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Mr Wooster, I am not ashamed to say that the tears came into my eyes as I listened to them. It amazes… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He will lunch with you at your flat tomorrow at one-thirty. Please remember that he drinks no wine, strongly disapproves of smoking,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“A ripe suggestion," I said. "Where are you meeting her? At the Ritz?" "Near the Ritz." He was geographically accurate. About fifty… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Bertie old man I say Bertie could you possibly come down here at once. Everything gone wrong hang it all. Dash it… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I worship her, Bertie! I worship the very ground she treads on!" continued the patient, in a loud, penetrating voice. Fred thompson… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Do you realise that about two hundred of Twing's heftiest are waiting for you outside to chuck you into the pond?" "No!"… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Brookfield, my correspondent, writes that last week he observed him in the moonlight at an advanced hour gazing up at his window."… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The hotel which had had the bad luck to draw Aunt Agatha's custom was the Splendide, and by the time I got… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He was one of those supercilious striplings who give you the impression that you went to the wrong school and that your… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I suppose the fundamental distinction between Shakespeare and myself is one of treatment. We get our effects differently. Take the familiar farcical… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“She sometimes takes her little brother for a walk round this way," explained Bingo. "I thought we would meet her and bow,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“You see I'm wearing the tie," said Bingo. "It suits you beautiful," said the girl. Personally, if anyone had told me that… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Are there any books of that sort nowadays? The only ones I ever see mentioned in the papers are about married couples… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Sheh walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that's best of dark and bright meet… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“At that moment the gong sounded, and the genial host came tumbling downstairs like the delivery of a ton of coals.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Judge of my chagrin and all that sort of thing, therefore, when, tottering to my room and switching on the light, I… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Bar a weekly wrestle with the "Pink 'Un" and an occasional dip into the form book I'm not much of a lad… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I merely called for my hat and stick in a marked manner and legged it. But the memory rankled, if you know… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Jeeves," I said, "those spats." "Yes, sir?" "You really dislike them?" "Intensely, sir." "You don't think time might induce you to change… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He looked at me like Lillian Gish coming out of a swoon. "Is this Bertie Wooster talking?" he said, pained. "Yes, it… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“How would this do you, Bingo?" I said at length. "A few plovers' eggs to weigh in with, a cup of soup,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“What with one thing and another, I can't remember ever having been chirpier than at about this period in my career. Everything… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Jeeves." "Sir?" "Are you busy just now?" "No, sir." "I mean, not doing anything in particular?" "No, sir. It is my practice… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Love, Miss Halliday, is a delicate plant. It needs tending, nurturing, assiduous fostering. This cannot be done by throwing the breakfast bacon at a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“In these days in which we live, when existence has become a thing of infinite complexity and fate, if it slips us a bit… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don’t know?’ ‘I couldn’t say, sir.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“Ask the first lion cub you meet, and it will tell you that, once you’ve tasted blood, there is no pulling up, and it’s… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“He will lunch with you at your flat tomorrow at one-thirty. Please remember that he drinks no wine, strongly disapproves of smoking, and can… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“Too often on such occasions one feels, as I feel so strongly with regard to poor old Stilton, that the kindly thing to do… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“My late Uncle Henry, you see, was by way of being the blot on the Wooster escutcheon. An extremely decent chappie personally, and one… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“...he switched on the [flashlight]. When he did so, he instantly became the center attraction to a rowdy mob of those gnats, moths, and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“a chap who's supposed to stop chaps pinching things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
“It seems to be one of Nature’s laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractive brothers. Fillmore Nicholas had not worn… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share
