P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 13

• I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bucks, Bunch, Brows

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Apueste a los caballos o baje a Throgmorton Street e intente arrebatárselo a los Rothschild, y le aplaudiré como financiero astuto y precavido. Pero apostar al golf es puro juego.

  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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• There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Loco, Si

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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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• 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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• 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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