147 quotes
I don’t suppose she would recognize a deep, beautiful thought if you handed it to her on a skewer with tartare sauce.
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)
I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
Laughing Gas (1936)
Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.’
Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
And as for Gussie Fink-Nottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming him on sight.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.
Joy in the Morning (1947)
"The fellow with a face rather like a walnut."
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind.
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)
Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock.
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)
Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.
Pigs Have Wings (1952)
He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
Ukridge (1924)
A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
Blandings Castle (1935)
Old Nick had taken out a cambric handkerchief, one of a set of twelve he had bought a year ago, if you call it buying, at the establishment of M. Charvet in Paris.
French Leave (1956)
I’d always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn’t even put her in the oven.
Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
'Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?'
'No.'
'Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.'
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
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.
The Man Upstairs (1914)
However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.
Joy in the Morning (1947)
"Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it."
Psmith, Journalist (1915)