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P. G. Wodehouse quotes about moments

English Writer, Playwright October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975

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Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one has met only three times. One is attracted, yes; but one does not fall in love. A moment's reflection enabled him to diagnose his sensations correctly. This odd impulse to leap across the compartment and kiss Joan was not love. It was merely the natural desire of a good-hearted young man to be decently chummy with his species. P. G. Wodehouse
Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those who lived it contemporaneously with himself. He had no enemies and many friends. But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch. One of the two. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when..."
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth, P. G. Wodehouse
A moment before this voice spoke, Lord Emsworth had been smirking. He now congealed, and the smile passed from his lips like breath off a razor, to be succeeded be a tense look of anxiety and alarm. P. G. Wodehouse
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. P. G. Wodehouse
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
I wouldn’t have a face like that,’ proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness, ‘not if you gave me a million dollars.’ He thought for a moment, then corrected himself. ‘Two million dollars!’ he added. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story,..."
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments. P. G. Wodehouse
I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip... P. G. Wodehouse
...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. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in..."
She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers..."
There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir. P. G. Wodehouse
He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consomm, and the dinner-gong due any moment. P. G. Wodehouse
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

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