P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 12

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• His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Light, Aspect

  "Eggs, Beans and Crumpets". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1940.

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hands, Unseen, Ifs

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “How Right You Are, Jeeves”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Skills, Soul

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Golf is the Great Mystery.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Mystery

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• New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, America, Bed

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.145, Booklassic

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Jeeves, Disgruntled, Ifs

  The Code of the Woosters (1938) ch. 1

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• They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Names, Eggs, Two

  "The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse".

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• 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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Love Is, Needs, Calling

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Bertie Wooster Sees It Through”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Real, Golf, Excellence

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Powerful, Meaning Well, Looks

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Uncles, Aunt, Talking

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• He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Perfect

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• 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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  People, Letters, Insult

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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• The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  War, Hands, Baths

  "Uncle Fred in the Springtime". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1939.

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• A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Impact, Roots, Moustache

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• Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts. George's mouth had all the exclusiveness of a fashionable club. His breast stroke was a thing to see and wonder at. When he did the crawl, strong men gasped. When he swam on his back, you felt that that was the only possible method of progression.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Ocean, Men

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Events, Opinion, Thickness

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Indiscretions of Archie”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Golf, Gambling

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Moving, Dark, Night

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• I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Shrimp, Jeeves, Pity

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• When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and Joy is king of everything, when Cynthia smiles. He coughed, changing gears. When Cynthia frowns - What the devil are you talking about?I'm reading you my poem. The one I wrote to Cynthia last night. I'll go on, shall I?No!No?No. I haven't had my tea.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Kings, Reading, Night

  P. G. Wodehouse (1991). “The great sermon handicap”, James H. Heineman

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• Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Thinking, Asbestos, Vests

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.148, Courier Dover Publications

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• It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  I Don't Trust You, Don't Trust

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• I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, Bird, Toppings

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.3, Booklassic

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• She's a sort of human vampire-bat

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Vampire, Bats, Humans

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.47, Courier Dover Publications

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