Wodehouse Quotes

Wodehouse Quote of the day

Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.

I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.

...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.