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What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things. (P. G. Wodehouse)
She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. View quote
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The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. View quote
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She had more curves than a scenic railway. View quote
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As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire. View quote
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It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all. View quote
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I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head. View quote
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She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up. View quote
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I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments. View quote
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It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time. View quote
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Employers are like horses - they require management. (P. G. Wodehouse)
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. View quote
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What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter. View quote
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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 been found out. View quote
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This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers. View quote
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I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself. View quote
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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 not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster. View quote
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Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us. View quote
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I expect I shall feel better after tea. View quote
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The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide. View quote
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If he had a mind, there was something on it. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out? View quote
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Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests! View quote
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Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night. View quote
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She's a sort of human vampire-bat. View quote
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P. G. Wodehouse - Image
Occupation: English Writer
Born: October 15, 1881
Died: February 14, 1975
Quotes count: 316
Wikipedia: P. G. Wodehouse

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