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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally
    tags: brains, marriage
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: humor, love
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: bad-mood, disgruntlement, humor
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
    "The mood will pass, sir.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: appearance, bad-mood, clothes, dejection, humor
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I'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, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
    tags: fate, humor, pessimism
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when". ”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “What 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.”
    ― Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
    tags: conversation, humor, humour
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Freddie 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 , The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
    tags: disappointment, humor, moroseness, russia, satire, sorrow, tolstoy
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  • #11
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I always advise people never to give advice.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: advice
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “A 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, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
    tags: depression, humor, melancholy, wit
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  • #13
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “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
    tags: humor
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “If 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, Love Among the Chickens
    tags: humor, selfishness
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  • #15
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I 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
    tags: childhood, humor, writing
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Mike 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 , Mike and Psmith
    tags: humor, misfortune, sombre-mood
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  • #17
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: cheating, fate, humor, misfortune, top-8, unfairness
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have out-generalled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Moonshine
    tags: literary-criticism
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
    tags: hero, humor, imperfect
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “If he had a mind, there was something on it.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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  • #21
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves
    tags: humor, nietzsche
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    The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at
    “The 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, The Adventures of Sally
    tags: guns, humor, hunting, perspective, shooting
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  • #24
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”
    ― Wodehouse
    tags: french, grey-hair, guillotine, humor, old-age
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  • #25
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: writing
    160 likes

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  • #26
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Small Bachelor
    tags: blandness, humor, lack-of-feeling, love, lovelessness, marriage, married-life, matrimony, sarcasm
    218 likes

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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.'
    Yes, sir?'
    Is it really a frost?'
    A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.'
    But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.'
    Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.'
    He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.'
    I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse
    146 likes

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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. ”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    113 likes



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