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Been Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
- Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never…
- Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than…
- He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred…
- His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
- She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice…
- She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'
- In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
- 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.…
- You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.
- ...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it…
- A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained…
- As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
- A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of…
- 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…
- They pointed out that the friendship between the two artistes had always been a by-word or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it…
- It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there…
- No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only…
- She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the…
- The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in…
- It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man…
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