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“Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.”

P.G. Wodehouse

“Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.”

P.G. Wodehouse

“He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.”

P.G. Wodehouse

Source: The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

“As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.”

P.G. Wodehouse

“She's a sort of human vampire-bat”

P.G. Wodehouse

“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.”

P.G. Wodehouse book My Man Jeeves

Source: My Man Jeeves

“Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.”

P.G. Wodehouse

“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.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Mating Season

Source: The Mating Season

“A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.”

P.G. Wodehouse

Source: The Most of P.G. Wodehouse

“Don't blame me, Pongo,' said Lord Ickenham, 'if Lady Constance takes her lorgnette to you. God bless my soul, though, you can't compare the lorgnettes of to-day with the ones I used to know as a boy. I remember walking one day in Grosvenor Square with my aunt Brenda and her pug dog Jabberwocky, and a policeman came up and said the latter ought to be wearing a muzzle. My aunt made no verbal reply. She merely whipped her lorgnette from its holster and looked at the man, who gave one choking gasp and fell back against the railings, without a mark on him but with an awful look of horror in his staring eyes, as if he had seen some dreadful sight. A doctor was sent for, and they managed to bring him round, but he was never the same again. He had to leave the Force, and eventually drifted into the grocery business. And that is how Sir Thomas Lipton got his start.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)

“Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.”

P.G. Wodehouse

The Heart of a Goof (1926)

“Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Pigs Have Wings

Pigs Have Wings (1952)

“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.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“…his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.”

P.G. Wodehouse

The Heart of a Goof (1926)

“The modern young man,' said Aunt Dahlia, 'is a congenital idiot and wants a nurse to lead him by the hand and some strong attendant to kick him regularly at intervals of a quarter of an hour.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)