“It seems to be one of Nature’s laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractive brothers. Fillmore Nicholas had… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The fact that pigs were abroad in the night seemed to bring home to me the perilous nature of my enterprise.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“More and more, it was beginning to be borne in upon me what a particularly difficult chap Gussie was to help. He… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been turned down by a girl who afterwards married and then been introduced to her husband? If so you'll… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]: You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“A fellow told me one about Wembley yesterday," I said, to help on the cheery flow of conversation. "Stop me if you've… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Filled with a coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was… — 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
“If you are ignorant of Lora Delane Porter’s books that is your affair. Perhaps you are more to be pitied than censured.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I don't know why it is, but I've never been able to bear with fortitude anything in the shape of a kid… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Didn't Frankenstein get married?" "Did he?" said Eggy. "I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“You remind me of an old cat I once had. Whenever he killed a mouse he would bring it into the drawing-room… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He's such a dear, Mr. Garnet. A beautiful, pure, bred Persian. He has taken prizes." "He's always taking something - generally food.” — 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
“Gussie and I, as I say, had rather lost touch, but all the same I was exercised about the poor fish, as… — 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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don’t know?’ ‘I couldn’t say, sir.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“...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 Image
“Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
