# Quote — P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

> It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

- Author: [P.G. Wodehouse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pg-wodehouse.md)
- Book: [The Inimitable Jeeves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pg-wodehouse/the-inimitable-jeeves.md)
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> I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.

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> Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.

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> I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.

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