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Quotes from The Code of the Woosters — P. G. Wodehouse

1881–1975 England

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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)

Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

'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)

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

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

'You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'
'No, sir.'
'One or the other. Not both.'
'Precisely, sir.'

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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

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It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

Prismatic is the only word for those frightful tweeds and, oddly enough, the spectacle of them had the effect of steadying my nerves. They gave me the feeling that nothing mattered.

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

’You know your Shelley, Bertie!’
‘Oh, am I?’

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

...his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

Stiffy was one of those girls who enjoy in equal quantities the gall of an army mule and the calm insouciance of a fish on a slab of ice.

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

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