# Jeeves in the Offing

- Author: [P.G. Wodehouse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pg-wodehouse.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pg-wodehouse/jeeves-in-the-offing

## Quotes

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

> ‘Suppose your Aunt Dahlia read in the paper one morning that you were going to be shot at sunrise.’
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> ‘I couldn’t be, I’m never up so early.’

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

> 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.’

> ‘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.’

> ...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.

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

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