Wooster Quotes

#1. My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life. - Author: David Wooster

#2. Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal. - Author: Gary Paulsen

#3. IF ART HAD LEGS, IT WOULD BE FASHION. - Author: Patricia Wooster

#4. 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! - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#5. There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. - Author: G.K. Chesterton

#6. Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that he is a man of sudden, strong enthusiasms and that, when in the grip of one of these, he becomes a remorseless machine - tense, absorbed, single-minded. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#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. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#8. I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#9. I used to love 'Jeeves And Wooster.' That theme tune was great. I remember writing to them when I was little to get the music so I could learn it on the piano, and they sent me the sheet music. - Author: Lydia Leonard

#10. Wooster: Wait a second; this white mess jacket is brand new.
Jeeves: I assumed it had got into your wardrobe by mistake, sir, or else it had been placed there by your enemies. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#11. Look in at the Drones and ask the first fellow you meet 'Can the fine spirit of the Woosters be crushed?' and he will offer you attractive odds against such a contingency. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#12. 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 - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#13. In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness. - Author: Carre Otis

#14. His brow was sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought and his air that of a man who, if he had said 'Hullo, girls', would have said it like someone in a Russian drama announcing that Grandpapa had hanged himself in the barn. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#15. He was the sort of languid and elegant young man one would expect to find at a country house party, playing croquet with Bertie Wooster. Frightfully good fun, but not too many brains. - Author: Rhys Bowen

#16. I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence. - Author: David Wooster

#17. Market prices are always wrong. - Author: George Soros

#18. Would you say my head was like a pumpkin, Wooster?' 'Not a bit, old man.' 'Not like a pumpkin?' 'No, not like a pumpkin. A touch of the dome of St Paul's, perhaps. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#19. She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#20. My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it. - Author: Guy Fieri

#21. Bingo Little, under the influence of romantic love or, perhaps just under the influence;..once said,'There is no love without perfect trust','Who told you that?' asked Bertie Wooster incredulously. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#22. She's a sort of human vampire-bat - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#23. An atheist believes that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated. - Author: Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#24. As Bertie Wooster once phrased it, they experienced some difficulty in detecting the bluebird. - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#25. This Miss Wooster that I knew married a man named Spenser. Was she any relation?"
"She is my Aunt Agatha," I replied, and I spoke with a good deal of bitterness, trying to suggest by my manner that he was exactly the sort of man, in my opinion, who would know my Aunt Agatha. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#26. No matter what ... ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important. - Author: Walter Dean Myers

#27. What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking."
"Uncle Tom?"
"I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#28. We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. - Author: William James

#29. I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude. - Author: Mario Cantone

#30. Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#31. Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle pressure beneath the elbow while crossing a busy street usually fits the bill. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#32. Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all. - Author: Wally Lamb

#33. What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing - Author: Ishmael Reed

#34. Fascists are not human. A snake is more human. - Author: Hugo Chavez

#35. This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#36. To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult. - Author: Teresa Monachino

#37. Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse