# Young Men in Spats

- Author: [P.G. Wodehouse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pg-wodehouse.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pg-wodehouse/young-men-in-spats

## Quotes

> He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!’

> ‘Do you know,’ said a thoughtful Bean, ‘I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved were placed end to end—not that I suppose one could do it—they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.’
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> ‘Further than that,’ said the Egg. ‘Some of them were pretty tall.’

> ’You must remember, Father,’ said Mavis, in a voice which would have had an Eskimo slapping his ribs and calling for the steam-heat, ‘that this girl was probably very pretty. So many of these New York girls are. That would, of course, explain Frederick's behaviour.’