Пелем Грэнвил Вудхауз цитаты страница 3

„Я не должен ни пенса ни одной живой душе — разумеется, не считая торговцев.“

„То, чего ты хочешь, мой мальчик, и то, что ты получишь, - две совершенно разные вещи.
разные вещи.“

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„Этот труд я посвящаю своей дочери Леоноре, без деятельного участия и одобрения которой книга была бы написана вдвое быстрее.“

„У него было как раз достаточно ума, чтобы открыть рот, когда он хотел есть, но не более того.“

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„И мозгов у нее хватит на двоих, а именно столько и понадобится девушке, которая выйдет за тебя замуж.“

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“One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.”

Пелем Грэнвил Вудхауз: Цитаты на английском языке

“She had more curves than a scenic railway”

Источник: Mike and Psmith

“An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.”

“Employers are like horses — they require management.”

“I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Carry On, Jeeves

Источник: Carry on, Jeeves

“Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Psmith, Journalist

Источник: Psmith, Journalist

“You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Right Ho, Jeeves

Источник: Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга The Girl in Blue

Источник: The Girl in Blue (1970)

“I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.”

Источник: Meet Mr. Mulliner

“When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.”

“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."

(Interview,, Issue 64, Winter 1975)”

Источник: Jeeves in the Morning

“You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'
'No, sir.'
'One or the other. Not both.”

“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 книга The Code of the Woosters

'Precisely, sir.'
The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга The Code of the Woosters

Источник: The Code of the Woosters

“Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!”

Источник: The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

“Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга The Inimitable Jeeves

Источник: The Inimitable Jeeves

“I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“To find a man's true character, play golf with him.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Thank You, Jeeves

Источник: Thank You, Jeeves

“I don't know if you know it, J. B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.”

“I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra la la' as I did the lathering for I was feeling in mid season form this morning.”

“… it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.”

“Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit."

"Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.”

“Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга The Code of the Woosters

Источник: The Code of the Woosters

“I expect I shall feel better after tea.”

“I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Carry On, Jeeves

Источник: Carry on, Jeeves

“[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.”

“Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?”

“Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?”

“My Aunt Dahlia has a carrying voice… If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee.”

“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.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)