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7/29/2004

 

Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

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

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on

whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that . . . just loafed, I suppose.

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Her face was shining like the seat of a bus-driver's trousers.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of someone who had searched for the leak in life's gas pipe with a lighted candle.

"Have you ever tasted such filthy coffee?" "Never" said Joe, though he had lived in French hotels.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

I pressed down the mental accelerator.

The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

I always advise people never to give advice.

She gave me the sort of look she would have given a leper she wasn't fond of.

Wilfred Allsop was sitting up, his face pale, his eyes glassy, his hair disordered. He looked like the poet Shelley after a big night out with Lord Byron.

She wrinkles her nose at me as if I were a drain that had got out of order.

The Aberdeen terrier gave me an unpleasant look and said something under his breath in Gaelic.

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