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The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters
P.G. Wodehouse

The Code of the Woosters is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 7 October 1938, in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It was serialised in The Saturday Evening Post from 16 July to 3 September 1938 and in the London Daily Mail from 14 September to 6 October 1938.

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“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”

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Source: The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“'There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, "Do trousers matter?"'
‘The mood will pass, sir.’”

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Source: The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'
'No, sir.'
'One or the other. Not both.”

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'Precisely, sir.'
The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“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.”

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The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit."

"Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.”

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Source: The Code of the Woosters

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“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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Source: The Code of the Woosters

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“I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster”

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Source: The Code of the Woosters

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

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Source: The Code of the Woosters

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“…his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.”

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The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“Prismatic is the only word for those frightful tweeds and, oddly enough, the spectacle of them had the effect of steadying my nerves. They gave me the feeling that nothing mattered.”

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“She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.”

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The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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

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

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The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

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“I don’t suppose she would recognize a deep, beautiful thought if you handed it to her on a skewer with tartare sauce.”

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The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“You know your Shelley, Bertie!’
‘Oh, am I?”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“Stiffy was one of those girls who enjoy in equal quantities the gall of an army mule and the calm insouciance of a fish on a slab of ice.”

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The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.”

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The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“[of Spode] He was, as I had already been able to perceive, a breath-taking cove. About seven feet in height, and swathed in a plaid ulster which made him look about six feet across, he caught the eye and arrested it. It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla and had changed its mind at the last moment.”

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The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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“I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but a thing I have found in life is that from time to time, as you jog along, there occur moments which you are able to recognize immediately with the naked eye as high spots. Something tells you that they are going to remain etched, if etched is the word I want, for ever on the memory and will come back to you at intervals down the years, as you are dropping off to sleep, banishing that drowsy feeling and causing you to leap on the pillow like a gaffed salmon.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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