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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: humor, love
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
    tags: apologies, apologizing, humor, people, taking-advantage
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  • #4
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , Uneasy Money
    tags: adeptness, dexterity, men, poise, superiority, women
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  • #5
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
    tags: fate, humor, pessimism
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  • #6
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “What ho!" I said.
    "What ho!" said Motty.
    "What ho! What ho!"
    "What ho! What ho! What ho!"
    After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.”
    ― Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
    tags: conversation, humor, humour
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  • #7
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
    tags: depression, humor, melancholy, wit
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  • #9
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse
    tags: childhood, humor, writing
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  • #10
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
    tags: disappointment, humor, moroseness, russia, satire, sorrow, tolstoy
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , Mike and Psmith
    tags: humor, misfortune, sombre-mood
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  • #12
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “If he had a mind, there was something on it.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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  • #13
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
    "The mood will pass, sir.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: appearance, bad-mood, clothes, dejection, humor
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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  • #15
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: disappointment, expression, face, life, satire
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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  • #17
    The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at
    “The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally
    tags: guns, humor, hunting, perspective, shooting
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  • #18
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
    tags: hero, humor, imperfect
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  • #19
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: humor
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  • #20
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Cheer up, Crips, and keep smiling. That’s the thing to do. If you go through life with a smile on your face, you’ll be amazed how many people will come up to you and say ‘What the hell are you grinning about? What’s so funny?’ Make you a lot of new friends.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse
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  • #21
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.”
    ― Wodehouse
    tags: death, depression, humor, undertakers
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  • #22
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: cheating, fate, humor, misfortune, top-8, unfairness
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  • #23
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
    tags: humor, selfishness
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  • #24
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.'
    Yes, sir?'
    Is it really a frost?'
    A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.'
    But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.'
    Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.'
    He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.'
    I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse
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  • #25
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: dismissal, life, writing
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  • #26
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Morning
    tags: iron-will
    137 likes

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  • #27
    A.A. Milne
    “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: pooh-bear
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  • #28
    A.A. Milne
    “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: discovery, eccentric, life
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  • #29
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: bertie-wooster
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  • #30
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Morning
    tags: doubt, hamlet, hesitation, humor, jeeves, shakespeare
    149 likes



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