Frases de P. G. Wodehouse

„And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse, libro The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)
Fuente: Mostly Sally

„There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

„The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

Fuente: Very Good, Jeeves!

„He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

„It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

The Man Upstairs (1914)
Fuente: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

„'There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, "Do trousers matter?"'
‘The mood will pass, sir.’“

—  P.G. Wodehouse, libro The Code of the Woosters

Fuente: The Code of the Woosters (1938)

„Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

Fuente: Very Good, Jeeves!

„He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

„At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse, libro Uneasy Money

The Adventures of Sally (1922)
Fuente: Uneasy Money

„Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

„I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse, libro The Code of the Woosters

Fuente: The Code of the Woosters (1938)

„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.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse, libro My Man Jeeves

Fuente: My Man Jeeves

„I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse, libro Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

Fuente: Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

„I always advise people never to give advice.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

„A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

Variante: He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
Fuente: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

„If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse, libro Love Among the Chickens

Fuente: Love Among the Chickens

„I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

„Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Fuente: Very Good, Jeeves!

„Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?“

—  P.G. Wodehouse

Fuente: Mike and Psmith