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“I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“The stationmaster’s whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Uncle Dynamite

Uncle Dynamite (1948)

“It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Ring for Jeeves

Ring for Jeeves (1953)

“Whenever I meet Ukridge’s Aunt Julia I have the same curious illusion of having just committed some particularly unsavoury crime and—what is more—of having done it with swollen hands, enlarged feet, and trousers bagging at the knee on a morning when I had omitted to shave.”

P.G. Wodehouse

Ukridge (1924)

“Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?”

P.G. Wodehouse book Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Do you know,’ said a thoughtful Bean, ‘I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved were placed end to end—not that I suppose one could do it—they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.’
‘Further than that,’ said the Egg. ‘Some of them were pretty tall.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Young Men in Spats

Young Men in Spats (1936)

“A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.”

P.G. Wodehouse book A Pelican at Blandings

A Pelican at Blandings (1969)

“You know your Shelley, Bertie!’
‘Oh, am I?”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Luck of the Bodkins

The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

“Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“I don't know if you have ever seen a tiger of the jungle drawing a deep breath preparatory to doing a swan dive and landing with both the feet on the backbone of one of the minor fauna. Probably not, nor, as a matter of fact, have I.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“Routine is the death to heroism.”

P.G. Wodehouse

The Man Upstairs (1914)

“At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter of fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.”

P.G. Wodehouse

The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)

“I had not failed to interpret the significance of that dark frown, that bitten lip and those flashing eyes, nor the way the willowy figure had quivered, indicating, unless she had caught a chill, that she was as sore as a sunburned neck.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)

“At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said "Psst!"”

P.G. Wodehouse book Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning (1929)

“There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.”

P.G. Wodehouse

The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)

“Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)