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One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory. (P. G. Wodehouse)
I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis. View quote
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Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto. View quote
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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 merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff. View quote
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You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.' 'No, sir.' 'One or the other. Not both. View quote
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Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction. View quote
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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 have yet to hear of it. View quote
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It is the bungled crime that brings remorse. View quote
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One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation. View quote
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It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins. View quote
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everything is relative. you, for instance, are my relative. (P. G. Wodehouse)
When you're alone you don't do much laughing. View quote
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The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness. View quote
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Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped. View quote
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I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much. View quote
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A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber. View quote
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He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment. View quote
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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 rid of the body. View quote
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He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons. View quote
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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. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well. View quote
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A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks. View quote
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When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.". Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point. View quote
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It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill. View quote
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...his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm. View quote
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P. G. Wodehouse

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: October 15, 1881
Died: February 14, 1975
Quotes count: 316
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