Quotes from book
Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning
P.G. Wodehouse

Joy in the Morning is a novel by English humorist P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 22 August 1946, by Doubleday & Co., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 2 June 1947, by Herbert Jenkins, London. Some later American paperback editions bore the title Jeeves in the Morning.

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“We exchanged a meaning glance. Or, rather, two meaning glances, I giving him one and he giving me the other.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“I suppose this was really the moment for embarking upon an impassioned defence of Boko, stressing his admirable qualities. Not being able to think of any, however, I remained silent.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“Aunt Agatha is like an elephant—not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“When news had reached me through well-informed channels that my Aunt Agatha for many years a widow, or derelict, as I believed it is called, was about to take another pop at matrimony, my first emotion, as was natural in the circumstances, had been a gentle pity for the unfortunate goop slated to step up the aisle with her - she, as you are aware, being my tough aunt, the one who eats broken bottles and conducts human sacrifices by the light of the full moon.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“I don’t say I’ve got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I’m perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don’t want people fooling about with it. ‘Leave it alone,’ I say. ‘Don’t touch it. I like it the way it is.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“She laughed - a solo effort. Nothing in the prevailing circumstances made me feel like turning it into a duet.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“On his good mornings, I don't suppose there are more than a handful of men in the W. 1 postal district of London swifter to spot oompus-boompus than Bertram Wooster, and this was one of my particularly good mornings. I saw the whole hideous plot.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

P.G. Wodehouse photo

“He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

Similar authors

P.G. Wodehouse photo
P.G. Wodehouse302
English author 1881–1975
Terry Pratchett photo
Terry Pratchett796
English author None
A.A. Milne photo
A.A. Milne169
British author None
George Orwell photo
George Orwell473
English author and journalist None
T.S. Eliot photo
T.S. Eliot270
20th century English author None
Aldous Huxley photo
Aldous Huxley290
English writer None
Douglas Adams photo
Douglas Adams317
English writer and humorist None
Kazuo Ishiguro photo
Kazuo Ishiguro76
Japanese-born British author None
Jerome K. Jerome photo
Jerome K. Jerome87
English humorist None
John Galsworthy photo
John Galsworthy48
English novelist and playwright None