“What with one thing and another, I can't remember ever having been chirpier than at about this period in my career. Everything seemed to be going right. On three separate occasions horses on which I'd invested a sizeable amount won… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Betting!" he gargled. "Betting! You don't mean that they're betting on this holy, sacred - Oh, I say, dash it all! Haven't people any sense of decency and reverence? Is nothing safe from their beastly, sordid graspingness? I wonder," said… — 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
