P. G. Wodehouse idézet oldal 2

„Annyi esze volt, hogy kinyitotta a száját, amikor enni akart, de ennél több biztosan nem.”

„És két emberre elegendő esze van, és pontosan ennyi kell annak a lánynak, aki feleségül megy hozzád.”

„Úgy tűnt, hogy a szerelem hangja hív engem, de rossz számot hívott.”

„Olyan volt a tekintete, mint aki ivott az élet poharából, és egy döglött bogarat talált az alján.”

„Nem arról van szó, hogy nem bízom magában, Dunstable, egyszerűen csak nem bízom magában.”

P. G. Wodehouse idézetek

„Úgy nézett ki, mint egy paradicsom, amelyik éppen ki akarja fejezni magát.”

„Kórustag voltam, amíg rá nem jöttek, honnan jön a zaj.”

„Rengeteget kötött, hogy ne dohányozzon annyit, és rengeteget dohányzott, hogy ne kössön annyit.”

„Sohasem nehéz egy szomorú skótot megkülönböztetni a napsugártól.”

„Kézzel-lábbal tudott franciául.”

„A vadászatnak, mint sportnak a vonzereje szinte teljesen attól függ, hogy a puska melyik végén helyezkedünk el.”

„Úgy nézett rám, mint valami felesleges tárgyra, amit a macska behurcolt, miután áttúrta a környék kukáit.”

„Alf Toddnak körülbelül annyi esélye van a nehézsúlyú bajnokságra, mint amikor a koromsötét szobában egy félkarú vak ember tűzforró tűvel próbál egy font olvasztott vajat belepasszírozni egy vadmacska fülébe.”

„Az aberdeen terrier nyugtalanító pillantást vetett rám, majd mormogott valamit a bajsza alatt keltául.”

„Az az ember, akinek meg kell számolnod a lábait, hogy biztosan nem öszvér-e?”

„A vörös haj, uram, véleményem szerint veszélyes.”

“It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.”

P. G. Wodehouse: Idézetek angolul

“I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Love Among the Chickens

Forrás: Love Among the Chickens

“There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Adventures of Sally

Forrás: The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”

“If he had a mind, there was something on it.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Small Bachelor

Forrás: The Small Bachelor

“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”

“I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Carry On, Jeeves

Forrás: Carry on, Jeeves

“In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.”

“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.”

“I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Something Fresh

Forrás: Something Fresh

“She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.”

“It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.”

“What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?”

Forrás: Jeeves in the Morning

“I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Carry On, Jeeves

Forrás: Carry on, Jeeves

“It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.”

“Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.”

“Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Doctor Sally

Forrás: Doctor Sally

“Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.”

Forrás: Very Good, Jeeves!

“Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Forrás: Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

“She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.”

“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Carry On, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Forrás: Carry on, Jeeves

“Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Girl in Blue

Forrás: The Girl in Blue (1970)

“He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Carry On, Jeeves

Forrás: Carry on, Jeeves

“We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.”

Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)

“A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Inimitable Jeeves

Forrás: The Inimitable Jeeves

“What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Adventures of Sally

Forrás: The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French. One of the things which Gertrude Butterwick had impressed on Monty Bodkin when he left for his holiday on the Riviera was that he must be sure to practise his French, and Gertrude’s word was law. So now, though he knew that it was going to make his nose tickle, he said:
‘Er, garçon.’
‘M’sieur?’
‘Er, garçon, esker-vous avez un spot de l’encre et une piece de papier—note papier, vous savez—et une envelope et une plume.’
The strain was too great. Monty relapsed into his native tongue.
‘I want to write a letter,’ he said. And having, like all lovers, rather a tendency to share his romance with the world, he would probably have added ‘to the sweetest girl on earth’, had not the waiter already bounded off like a retriever, to return a few moments later with the fixings.
‘V’la, sir! Zere you are, sir,’ said the waiter. He was engaged to a girl in Paris who had told him that when on the Riviera he must be sure to practise his English. ‘Eenk—pin—pipper—enveloppe—and a liddle bit of bloddin-pipper.’
‘Oh, merci,’ said Monty, well pleased at this efficiency. ‘Thanks. Right-ho.’
‘Right-ho, m’sieur,’ said the waiter.”

“The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Luck of the Bodkins

Forrás: The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)