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Wodehouse Tweets

1 year

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

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Wodehouse Tweets

@inimitablepgw

1 year

A certain critic—for such men, I regret to say, do exist—made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he

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"There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir."

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“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, ‘Do trousers matter?'” “The mood will pass, sir.”

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1 year

'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.'

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She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say ‘when’.

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It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

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6 years

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

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1 year

An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.

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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?”

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"I’ve never heard of him. Have you ever heard of him, Jeeves?" "I am familiar with the name Bassington-Bassington, sir. There are three branches of the Bassington-Bassington family — the Shropshire Bassington-Bassingtons, the Hampshire Bassington-Bassingtons, and the Kent

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1 year

“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.

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1 year

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

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1 year

'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.'

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1 year

'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.'

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1 year

It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of

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1 year

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

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1 year

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

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1 year

Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

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1 year

#WodehouseWednesday : Did you know you can watch the complete "Jeeves and Wooster" series for free on YouTube? 😲 Here's the binge-worthy playlist of all the episodes: Enjoy!

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1 year

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

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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.

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1 year

Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welter-weight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to have to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover. The sort of girl who reduces you to pulp with

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1 year

“Very good," I said coldly. "In that case, tinkerty tonk." And I meant it to sting.

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1 year

I always advise people never to give advice.

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1 year

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

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3 years

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

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1 year

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn’t.

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1 year

“Don't leave me, Bertie. I'm lost." "What do you mean, lost?" "I came out for a walk and suddenly discovered after a mile or two that I didn't know where on earth I was. I've been wandering round in circles for hours." "Why didn't you ask the way?" "I can't speak a word of

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1 year

“Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope..." "Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves." "No, sir." "There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't." "Very true, sir.”

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1 year

One of the King Georges of England–I forget which–once said that a certain number of hours’ sleep each night–I cannot recall at the moment how many–made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory.

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1 year

Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

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1 year

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

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7 years

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, “Do trousers matter?” "The mood will pass, sir.”

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1 year

Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

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1 year

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.

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1 year

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

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4 years

“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, ‘Do trousers matter?'" “The mood will pass, sir.”

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1 year

“Jeeves, I'm engaged." "I hope you will be very happy, sir." "Don't be an ass. I'm engaged to Miss Bassett.”

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1 year

'Jeeves, I'm engaged.' 'I hope you will be very happy, sir.' 'Don't be an ass. I'm engaged to Miss Bassett.'

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1 year

Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

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1 year

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

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1 year

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.

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1 year

The thought of being engaged to a girl who talked openly about fairies being born because stars blew their noses, or whatever it was, frankly appalled me.

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1 year

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

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1 year

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.

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1 year

As for Gussie Fink-Nottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

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1 year

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

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1 year

“What are the chances of a cobra biting Harold, Jeeves?" "Slight, I should imagine, sir. And in such an event, knowing the boy as intimately as I do, my anxiety would be entirely for the snake.”

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11 months

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.

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1 year

He looked, as always, as if he had been carved from some durable form of wood by someone who was taking a correspondence course in sculpture and had just reached his third lesson.

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1 year

One of his eyebrows had risen about an eighth of an inch, and I know he was deeply stirred, because I had rarely seen him raise an eyebrow more than a sixteenth of an inch.

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5 years

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

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1 year

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

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1 year

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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1 year

Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.

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1 year

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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1 year

It was one of those heavy, sultry afternoons when nature seems to be saying to itself, 'Now, shall I, or shall I not, scare the pants off these people with a hell of a thunderstorm?'

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4 years

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

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1 year

He was, as I had already been able to perceive, a breath-taking cove. About seven feet in height, and swathed in a plaid ulster which made him look about six feet across, he caught the eye and arrested it. It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla and had changed its

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1 year

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

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1 year

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

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1 year

He looked, as always, as if he had been carved from some durable form of wood by someone who was taking a correspondence course in sculpture and had just reached his third lesson.

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3 years

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn’t.

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1 year

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

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1 year

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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1 year

There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.

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1 year

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

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1 year

Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.

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6 years

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.

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1 year

And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

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1 year

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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1 year

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.

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4 years

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn’t.

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2 years

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

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1 year

I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.

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She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.

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1 year

Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

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1 year

I wouldn’t say Jeeves smiled — he practically never does — but a muscle abaft the mouth did seem to quiver slightly for an instant.

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11 months

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

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5 years

An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.

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6 years

“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.

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1 year

It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

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1 year

Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.

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1 year

It isn’t often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

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1 year

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

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1 year

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.

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I am going to start at the bottom and work my way still further down.

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1 year

"Sir Jasper Finch-Farrowmere?" said Wilfred. "ffinch-ffarrowmere," corrected the visitor, his sensitive ear detecting the capitals.

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1 year

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

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1 year

I don't want to seem always to be criticising your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?'

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1 year

If she ever turned into a werewolf, it would be one of those jolly breezy werewolves whom it is a pleasure to know.

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1 year

I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.

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1 year

There are girls, few perhaps but to be found if one searches carefully, who when their advice is ignored and disaster ensues, do not say "I told you so." Mavis was not of their number.

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1 year

It isn’t often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

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3 years

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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1 year

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

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1 year

Felicia was a dutiful child, and she loved her parents. It took a bit of doing, but she did it.

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1 year

He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

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Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.

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