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A daily (more or less) dose of P.G. Wodehouse.

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What is the single funniest line Wodehouse ever wrote? No wrong answers, only joy.

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Stephen Fry: What Jeeves and PG Wodehouse taught me about life https://t.co/NSVbcHVNy3

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‘Last year,’ said Biffy, ‘I buzzed over to Canada to do a bit of salmon fishing.’
I ordered another. If this was going to be a fish-story, I needed stimulants.
-The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy

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I found my soul darkened by a nameless fear. I don't know if you have ever had your soul darkened by a nameless fear. It's a most unpleasant feeling.
-The Mating Season

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Jeeves, in speaking of this Fink-Nottle, had, if you remember, described him as disgruntled, and it was plain at a glance that the passage of time had done nothing to gruntle him.
-The Mating Season

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Tuppy, when not making an ass of himself, is a soundish sort of egg.
-Right Ho, Jeeves

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‘What ho!’ I said.
‘What ho!’ said Motty.
‘What ho! What ho!’
‘What ho! What ho! What ho!’
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.
-Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

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As a general rule, in my dealings with the delicately-nurtured, I am the soul of knightly chivalry—suave, genial, and polished. But I can on occasion say the bitter, cutting thing, and I said it now.
‘Oh?’ I said.
-Jeeves and the Kid Clementina

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That reminds me: A final homage to Wodehouse - The Conservative Woman https://t.co/zgiW5kEioA

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There are some things a chappie’s mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing “Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay” is one of them.
-Extricating Young Gussie

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The Inimitable Jeeves turns 100 – Mark McGinness - The Oldie https://t.co/f3gSOlvnJW

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‘It’s a small world.’
‘Not so very.’
‘Jeeves thinks it is.’
‘Well, fairly small, perhaps,’ he agreed, making a concession.
-Joy in the Morning

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‘Tell me, were you always like this, or did it come on suddenly?’
‘Sir?’
‘The brain. The grey matter. Were you an outstandingly brilliant boy?’
‘My mother thought me intelligent, sir.’
‘You can’t go by that. My mother thought me intelligent.’
-Very Good, Jeeves

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No girl wants a potty husband, though it’s dashed hard not to get one nowadays.
-Uncle Fred in the Springtime

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"Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice."

P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, @foliosociety illustration by Paul Cox

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I daresay you have noticed, Wooster, that when women find themselves in a position to take a running kick at one of their own sex they are twice as rough on her as they would be on a man.
-Very Good, Jeeves!

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There may have been men in London who thought more highly of Sir Raymond Bastable than did Sir Raymond Bastable, but they would have been hard to find…
-Cocktail Time

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‘Listen, Bertie,’ said Aunt Dahlia earnestly, ‘I’m an older woman than you are—well, you know what I mean—and I can tell you a thing or two.
-Very Good, Jeeves

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The advantage of having plenty of time on one's hands is that one has leisure to attend to the affairs of all one's circle of friends.
-Indiscretions of Archie

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“Love is a wonderful thing. Hash.”
Mr. Todhunter’s ample mouth curled sardonically.
“When you’ve seen as much of life as I have,” he replied, “you’d rather have a cup of tea.”
-Sam the Sudden