You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like Shakespeare. Sounds well, but doesn't mean anything.
And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still...
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Bill Bryson
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
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William Shakespeare
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...
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William Shakespeare
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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William Shakespeare
All's well that ends well.
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By P.g. Wodehouse
The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
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.