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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

“It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre 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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

“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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

“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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

Source: Tales of St. Austin's

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

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P.G. Wodehouse

“[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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

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

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P.G. Wodehouse

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

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P.G. Wodehouse livre Love Among the Chickens

Source: Love Among the Chickens

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

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P.G. Wodehouse

“She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre Summer Lightning

Source: Summer Lightning

“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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre Something New

Source: Something New

“It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre The Code of the Woosters

Source: The Code of the Woosters

“Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre The Code of the Woosters

Source: The Code of the Woosters

“Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre Cocktail Time

Source: Cocktail Time (1958)

“When you have just been told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre Summer Lightning

Source: Summer Lightning (1929)

“Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

“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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre The Inimitable Jeeves

Source: The Inimitable Jeeves

“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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

“It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia, lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre Right Ho, Jeeves

Source: Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

“The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

“What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre My Man Jeeves

Source: My Man Jeeves

“There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

Joy in the Morning (1947)
Source: Jeeves in the Morning

“A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

Source: The Plot That Thickened

“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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre Carry On, Jeeves

Source: Carry on, Jeeves

“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.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

“Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.”

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P.G. Wodehouse livre Summer Moonshine

Source: Summer Moonshine (1938)

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