P. G. Wodehouse idézet oldal 6

„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.”

“A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.”

P. G. Wodehouse: Idézetek angolul

“He’s engaged to be married to Stiffy Byng, and his long years of football should prove an excellent preparation for setting up house with her. The way I look at it is that when a fellow has had plug-uglies in cleated boots doing a Shuffle-off-to-Buffalo on his face Saturday after Saturday since he was a slip of a boy, he must get to fear nothing, not even marriage with a girl like Stiffy, who from early childhood has seldom let the sun go down without starting some loony enterprise calculated to bleach the hair of one and all.”

Blandings Castle (1935)

“It was one of those cold, clammy, accusing sort of eyes--the kind that makes you reach up to see if your tie is straight: and he looked at me as I were some sort of unnecessary product which Cuthbert the Cat had brought in after a ramble among the local ash-cans.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“Mere abuse is no criticism.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Quick Service

Quick Service (1940)

“I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“He had that self-reproachful feeling of having been remiss which comes to Generals who wake up one morning to discover that they have carelessly allowed themselves to be outflanked.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)

“Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?'
'No.'
'Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Cocktail Time

Cocktail Time (1958)

“While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.”

The Heart of a Goof (1926)

“As plainly as if it had been the top line on the oculist’s chart I could see what the future held for Bertram.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Scarcely had I entered the sitting-room when I found … what appeared at first sight to be the Devil, A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.”

The Clicking Of Cuthbert (1922)

“Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“"Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary," murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words "Elementary, my dear Watson" has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas (1936)

“It was a cold, disapproving gaze, such as a fastidious luncher who was not fond of caterpillars might have directed at one which he had discovered in his portion of salad…”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Psmith, Journalist

Psmith, Journalist (1915)

“Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Sunset at Blandings

Sunset at Blandings (1977 (posthumously published))

“It seemed to me, thinking quick, that the only way of solving the am-parce [impasse] was to sacrifice Shorty. Like Russian peasants with their children, you know, when they are pursued by wolves and it becomes imperative to lighten the sledge.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Spring Fever

Spring Fever (1948)

“You must remember, Father,’ said Mavis, in a voice which would have had an Eskimo slapping his ribs and calling for the steam-heat, ‘that this girl was probably very pretty. So many of these New York girls are. That would, of course, explain Frederick's behaviour.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)

“Whatever may be said in favour of the Victorians, it is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Young Men in Spats

Young Men in Spats (1936)

“I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Summer Moonshine

Summer Moonshine (1938)

“Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Lord Emsworth and Others

Lord Emsworth and Others (1937)

“Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Luck of the Bodkins

The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

“Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv Carry On, Jeeves

Carry On, Jeeves (1925)

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' (quoting John Greenleaf Whittier)”

P.G. Wodehouse könyv The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)