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Wells Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
- But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails…
- Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.
- Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him,…
- It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
- 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.…
- Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.
- ...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…
- Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.
- I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And…
- Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle…
- I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my…
- 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…
- Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.
- Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe…
- 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…
- I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well,…
- As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
- I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you…
- An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.
- Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the…
- I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong