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- If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
- There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.
- I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I…
- 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…
- One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hoursĀ“ sleep each night - I cannot recall at…
- 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…
- When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a…
- 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…
- He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
- Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one…
- As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps…
- You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on…
- This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her…
- [He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having…
- 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…
- The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be…
- You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.
- ...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had…
- One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth,
- It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to…
- She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.
- ...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He…
- One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.
- One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got…
- That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.
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