P.G. Wodehouse

Quotes

1. She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

2. 

   Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.

3. 

   When you have just been told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

4. 

   This done, he felt a little—not much, but a little—better. Before, he would have gladly murdered Beach and James and danced on their graves. Now, he would have been satisfied with straight murder.

5. 

   In one second, without any previous training or upbringing, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.

6. 

   At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said "Psst!"

7. 

   The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say `When!'

8. 

   Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welterweight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover.

9. 

   While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.

10. 

    [of a character in "The Man Who Gave Up Smoking" who is suffering from a hangover] ... the noise of the cat stamping about in the passage outside caused him exquisite discomfort.

11. 

    Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

12. 

    Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.