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“There were nights in the hot weather when Mike would be despondent. A New York summer night does not encourage optimism.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother

“It was a generously-planned face. Nature seemed to have started out with the idea of making two faces and then to have decided to use all the material for one.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother

“It seems incredible that we haven't met before. If you ask most people, they will tell you the difficult thing is to avoid meeting me.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Big Money

“What a gruesome mess you must have been at three,' said the Biscuit meditatively. 'You were bad enough at fourteen. At three you must have made strong men shudder.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Big Money

“I am listening, I tell you. Get to the point. And talk quick, darn it. Remember it's costing forty-five bucks every three minutes.' For Mrs Moon was speaking from her apartment on Park Avenue, New York. And though it was the woman who would pay, waste even of other people's money was agony to Mr Frisby. He possessed twenty million dollars himself, and loved every cent of them.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Big Money

“Fate would not have the reputation it has, if it simply did what it seemed it would do.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“If patience wasn’t so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue. . . ”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Either way, he figured a cup of coffee would hit the spot. For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“...the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“It is a well-known fact that of all the species on earth Homo sapiens is among the most adaptable. Settle a tribe of them in a desert and they will wrap themselves in cotton, sleep in tents, and travel on the backs of camels; settle them in the Arctic and they will wrap themselves in sealskin, sleep in igloos, and travel by dog-drawn sled. And if you settle them in a Soviet climate? They will learn to make friendly conversation with strangers while waiting in line; they will learn to neatly stack their clothing in their half of the bureau drawer; and they will learn to draw imaginary buildings in their sketchbooks. That is, they will adapt.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“He searches among the seemingly normal, and among the mad. He searches for the unnaturally happy and the inexplicably sad.”
― Manu Joseph

“Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“Men do things. We can't help it. That's all there is to it. As you will discover in time, the primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“Thoma is amazed at the telepathy of women. How miraculous it is for one woman to do something weird and another woman to extract its intended meaning.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness Of Other People

“The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“That breaks Ousep’s heart. To imagine the eternal boredom of his child. He wishes here to be no eternity, he wishes that even for his foes.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“The secret to happiness is not to have any expectations from people. ... Especially from the people who matter the most to you.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“That is the quality of drunkards, they have a lot of friends. Because what men find most endearing in other men are their tragic flaws. That is why alcoholics never run out of friends.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness Of Other People