Bertie Jeeves Quotes

#1. Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

Christophe Agou

#2. I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. Bertie, it is imperative that you marry."
"But, dash it all ... "
"Yes! You should be breeding children to ... "
"No, really, I say, please!" I said, blushing richly. Aunt Agatha belongs to two or three of these women's clubs, and she keeps forgetting she isn't in the smoking-room.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. It's a jump, Minuette, that's all it is. A jump out of this world, straight into my arms."
Incredibly, she managed to smile. "You will catch me?"
He pressed his lips against hers. "Always.

Laura Anderson

#5. Jeeves, whatever his moral defects, would never go about in skirts calling me Bertie.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. God's being is unitary; it is not composed of a number of parts working harmoniously, but simply one. There is nothing in His justice which forbids the exercise of His mercy.

A.W. Tozer

#7. Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope ... "
"Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves."
"No, sir."
"There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't."
"Very true, sir.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. Right words, sometimes they escape me; curses nay so much. Of them I am kin.

Luke Taylor

#9. Life requires us to do things anyway, despite what sort of fear or monster or tragedy or suffering lurks behind that anyway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. He looked at me like Lillian Gish coming out of a swoon.
"Is this Bertie Wooster talking?" he said, pained.
"Yes, it jolly well is!"
"Bertie, old man," said Bingo, patting me gently here and there, "reflect! We were at school - "
"Oh, all right!

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

Junot Diaz

#12. My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

Sophie Hannah

#13. Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.

Gene Pitney

#15. Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

Jonathan Raban

#16. If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

Gore Vidal

#17. We should surround ourselves with people who feel like abundance.

Cheryl Strayed

#18. I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.

Anita Ekberg

#19. One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Susan Howatch

#20. When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

P.G. Wodehouse

#21. Bertie, old man," said young Bingo earnestly, "for the last two weeks I've been comforting the sick to such an extent that, if I had a brother and you brought him to me on a sick-bed at this moment, by Jove, old man, I'd heave a brick at him.

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'

Bradley Whitford