P. G. Wodehouse híres idézetei
P. G. Wodehouse idézetek
P. G. Wodehouse: Idézetek angolul
“What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.”
Forrás: Right Ho, Jeeves
Like the latter, it seems to be tinged with a definite scepticism. It suggests a lack of faith in my vision. The impression I retain after hearing you shoot it at me a couple of times is that you consider me to be talking through the back of my neck, and that only a feudal sense of what is fitting restrains you from substituting for it the words 'Says you!'"
Forrás: Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
The Man Upstairs (1914)
Forrás: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
Forrás: The Code of the Woosters (1938)
Változat: He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
Forrás: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
“Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.”
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Forrás: Very Good, Jeeves!