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“… 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 that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.”

“Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit."

"Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

Source: The Code of the Woosters

“Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.”

“I expect I shall feel better after tea.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Carry On, Jeeves

Source: Carry on, Jeeves

“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.”

“[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.”

“Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?”

“Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?”

“My Aunt Dahlia has a carrying voice… If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)

“I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”

“I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.”

“It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Love Among the Chickens

Source: Love Among the Chickens

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Tales of St. Austin's

“Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it.”

“[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 settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.”

“everything is relative. you, for instance, are my relative.”

“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Love Among the Chickens

Source: Love Among the Chickens

“When you're alone you don't do much laughing.”