01c. 1902 ADThe voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
02c. 1902 ADMarriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
03c. 1902 ADHe had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
04c. 1902 ADHe had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
05c. 1902 ADIt 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.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
06c. 1902 ADThere are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'""The mood will pass, sir.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
08c. 1902 ADI could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
09c. 1902 ADFreddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
10c. 1902 ADI'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
11c. 1902 ADWhat ho!" I said."What ho!" said Motty."What ho! What ho!""What ho! What ho! What ho!"After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
12c. 1902 ADA melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
13c. 1902 ADIf there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
14c. 1902 ADI know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
15c. 1902 ADUnseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
16c. 1902 ADI am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
17c. 1902 ADThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
18c. 1902 ADMike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
19c. 1902 ADThere is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
21c. 1902 ADIn a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
22c. 1902 ADIt was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
23c. 1902 ADAs for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
24c. 1902 ADWhat's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?P.G. Wodehouse / quote ↗
