Пелем Грэнвил Вудхауз цитаты страница 4

„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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“I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.”

Пелем Грэнвил Вудхауз: Цитаты на английском языке

“It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.”

“One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Love Among the Chickens

Источник: Love Among the Chickens

“It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.”

“No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.”

“Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it.”

Источник: Tales of St. Austin's

“[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.”

“everything is relative. you, for instance, are my relative.”

“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”

“When you're alone you don't do much laughing.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Love Among the Chickens

Источник: Love Among the Chickens

“She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.”

“This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Summer Lightning

Источник: Summer Lightning

“It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Something New

Источник: Something New

“The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга The Code of the Woosters

Источник: The Code of the Woosters

“Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга The Code of the Woosters

Источник: The Code of the Woosters

“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”

“When you have just been told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Cocktail Time

Источник: Cocktail Time (1958)

“Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Summer Lightning

Источник: Summer Lightning (1929)

“I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.”

“Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга The Inimitable Jeeves

Источник: The Inimitable Jeeves

“It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia, lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.”

“Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Right Ho, Jeeves

Источник: Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.”

“What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”

“There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга My Man Jeeves

Источник: My Man Jeeves

“A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.”

Joy in the Morning (1947)
Источник: Jeeves in the Morning

“He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.”

Источник: The Plot That Thickened

“One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.”

P.G. Wodehouse книга Carry On, Jeeves

Источник: Carry on, Jeeves

“Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.”