Quotes From "My Man Jeeves" By P.g. Wodehouse

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. At any moment you may be strolling peacefully along, and all the time Life's waiting around the corner to fetch you one. You can't tell when you may be going to get it. It's all dashed puzzling. Here was poor old George, as well-meaning a fellow as every stepped, getting swatted all over the ring by the hand of Fate. Why? That's what I asked myself. Just Life, don't you know. That's all there was about it. P.g. Wodehouse

You see, the catch about portrait painting– I've looked into the thing a bit– is that you can't startpainting portraits till people come along and ask you to, andthey won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first. This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie. P.g. Wodehouse

I felt most awfully braced. I felt as if the clouds had rolled away and all was as it used to be. I felt like one of those chappies in the novels who calls off the fight with his wife in the last chapter and decides to forget and forgive. I felt I wanted to do all sorts of other things to show Jeeves that I appreciated him. P.g. Wodehouse

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine. P.g. Wodehouse

I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare -- or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad -- who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping. P.g. Wodehouse

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:" He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute. P.g. Wodehouse

I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class. P.g. Wodehouse

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time. P.g. Wodehouse

And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all. P.g. Wodehouse

It's brain, " I said; "pure brain! What do you do to get like that, Jeeves? I believe you must eat a lot of fish, or something. Do you eat a lot of fish, Jeeves?""No, sir."" Oh, well, then, it's just a gift, I take it; and if you aren't born that way there's no use worrying. P.g. Wodehouse

Come on, " he said. "Bring the poker." I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it. P.g. Wodehouse