P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 6

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• The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

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  Snow, Pockets, Way

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• Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

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  League, Hot, Hey

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• It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.

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  Golf, Games, Glorious

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.43, The Floating Press

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• When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

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  Love, Girl, Bombs

  "Summer Lightning". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1929.

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• Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

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  Life, Men, Done

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Uneasy Money: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.

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  Cousin, Animal, Air

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• Flowers are happy things.

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  Flower, Reality, Happy Things

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

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  Mind, Ifs

  P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.289, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

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  White, Dry, Martini

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Cocktail Time”, p.19, Random House

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• Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

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  Golf, Years, Serious

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

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  Foundation, Happy Marriage, Spirit

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.158, The Floating Press

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• That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.

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  Pockets, World, Want

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.50, Booklassic

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• The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

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  Heart, Wine, Thinking

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

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  Ties, Matter, Jeeves

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

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  Sarcastic, Men, Years

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• I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit.

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  Girl, Stars, Mean

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.10, Booklassic

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• I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

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  Heart, Married, Braces

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “How Right You Are, Jeeves”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

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  Life, Mean, Reality

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

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  America, Blonde, Citizens

  "Summer Moonshine". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1938.

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• Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

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  Work, Names, Bob

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Psmith, Journalist”, p.248, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

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  World, Moments, Oneself

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• He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

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  Humorous, Long, Able

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• 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.

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  Girl, Men, Choices

  "Joy in the Morning". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1947.

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• So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

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  Optimistic, Trying, Looks

  P. G. Wodehouse (1966). “Uncle Dynamite”, Penguin Group USA

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

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  Lambs, Wells

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