To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of sense. I had known him, once or twice, show an almost human intelligence. But to rea...
Mathematicians among my readers do not need to be informed that . . . is the algebraical sign representing a blend of wheeze, croak, and hiccough.
Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir.By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice?
In love with me. Don't be absurd.My dear old thing, you don't know young Bingo. He can fall in love with anybody.Thank you!Oh, I didn't mean it that way, you know. I don't wonder at his taking to you....
INTERVIEWERHave you ever been envious of another writer?
I believe, if you played your cards right, you could still marry her, Pongo.’ ‘Aren’t you overlooking the trifling fact that I happen to be engaged to Hermione?’ ‘Slide out of it.’ ‘Ha!’ ‘It is what y...
He's only got two sides, a bad side and a worse side,
Don't leave me, Bertie. I'm lost.What do you mean, lost?I came out for a walk and suddenly discovered after a mile or two that I didn't know where on earth I was. I've been wandering round in circles...
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
A left jab from him had all the majesty of a formal declaration of war.
Обнадеждена безнадеждност...
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
Hoping that this was some jolly practical joke and that the real chap would shortly jump out from behind a chair and say Boo!
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 yo...
Yes, sir. The mathematician Archimedes is related to have discovered the principle of displacement quite suddenly one morning, while in his bath.’ ‘Well, there you are. And I don’t suppose he was such...
Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.
Vladimir specialized in grey studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page 380, when the muzhik decided to commit suicide.