Jeeves in the Offing

Quotes

1. I’d always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn’t even put her in the oven.

2. 

   ‘Suppose your Aunt Dahlia read in the paper one morning that you were going to be shot at sunrise.’

   ‘I couldn’t be, I’m never up so early.’

3. 

   She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.

4. 

   Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.’

5. 

   ‘When I say “mind,”’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’

6. 

   ...I mean to say, when a girl, offered a good man’s heart, laughs like a bursting paper bag and tells him not to be a silly ass, the good man is entitled, I think, to assume that the whole thing is off.

7. 

   I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.

8. 

   ‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.

That’s all the quotes.

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