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Quotes from Right Ho, Jeeves — P. G. Wodehouse

1881–1975 England

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

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

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.

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

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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)

"The fellow with a face rather like a walnut."

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

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My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.

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A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.

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I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not — being, in point of fact, Jeeves.
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Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

If the prophet Job were to walk into the room at this moment, I could sit swapping hard-luck stories with him till bedtime."

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Though never for an instant faltering in my opinion that Augustus Fink-Nottle was Nature's final word in cloth-headed guffins, I liked the man, wished him well.

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Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?
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Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

And a moment later there was a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and the relative had crossed the threshold at fifty m.p.h. under her own steam.

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I consider that of all the dashed silly, drivelling ideas I ever heard in my puff this is the most blithering and futile. It won't work. Not a chance.

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"She loves this newt-nuzzling blister."

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In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.

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If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
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Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.
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Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

The female in question was a sloppy pest

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Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: P. G. Wodehouse (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.