Deepa Swaminathan

“I could make a poet out of far less promising material. I could make a poet out of two sticks and a piece of orange peel.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two girls who "have never been undutiful to their parents; who have never been known to swear or to tell untruths, to steal, or to break windows." Fancy giving up all that for five shillings a year! It is not worth it!”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“The more the other party thinks he's having his way, the easier always to get your own.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Fanny and the servant problem, a quite possible play in four acts

“It seems to be one of Nature’s laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractive brothers. Fillmore Nicholas had not worn well. At the age of seven he had been an extraordinarily beautiful child, but after that he had gone all to pieces; and now, at the age of twenty-five, it would be idle to deny that he was something of a mess.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally