I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip like the bite of a horse. "Did you say 'Oh yes?'" he asked. "Oh no," I assured him.
It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you. - P. G. Wodehouse
It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.
- P. G. Wodehouse
New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed. - P. G. Wodehouse
New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.
An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away. - P. G. Wodehouse
An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me. - P. G. Wodehouse
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time bei… - P. G. Wodehouse
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time bei…
Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred. - P. G. Wodehouse
Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth. - P. G. Wodehouse
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to gi… - P. G. Wodehouse
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to gi…
I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves
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