Contact
Privacy
Book: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
Quotes of Book: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
TOP TAGS :burroughsfirst-sentencemaritimebrennathoughts-on-lifemoviememoriesfool

  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    I had forgotten you were a bird-watcher till you reminded me just now. You went in for it at Oxford, I remember. It isn't a thing I would care to do myself. Not," I hastened to add, "that I've anything against bird-watching. Must be most interesting, besides keeping you" – I was about to say "out of the public houses" but thought it better to change it to "out in the open air". "What's the procedure?" I went on. "I suppose you lurk in a bush till a bird comes along, and then you out with the glasses and watch it.
    book-quote

  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    I eluded them, therefore, with no great expenditure of physical effort, but I would be deceiving my public if I said that I was enjoying the episode. It offends one's pride when one has to leap like a lamb in Springtime at the bidding of an elderly little Gawd-help-us with whom it is impossible to reason.
    book-quote

  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    How sharper than a serpent's tooth, I remember Jeeves saying once, it is to have a thankless child, and it isn't a dashed sight better having a thankless aunt.
    book-quotehumor

  4. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    a chap after the horses.' He had found the right
    book-quote

  5. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    Tell me, Jeeves," I said. "Suppose you were in a shop taking out of the lending library and a clergyman's daughter came in and without so much as a preliminary 'Hullo, there' said to you, 'Has he brought it yet?' what interpretations would you place on those words?"He pondered, this way and that dividing the swift mind, as I have heard him put it."'Has he brought it yet,' sir?""Just that.""I should reach the conclusion that the lady was expecting a male acquaintance to have arrived or to be arriving shortly bearing some unidentified object."
    book-quotelibraryquestionsjeeves

  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    Lord Chesterfield said that since he had had the full use of his reason nobody had heard him laugh. I don't suppose you have read Lord Chesterfield's 'Letters To His Son'?...Well, of course I hadn't. Bertram Wooster does not read other people's letters. If I were employed in the post office I wouldn't even read the postcards.
    book-quote

  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
    book-quote

  8. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    I'm much too much the popular pet ever since I sang 'Every Nice Girl Loves A Sailor' at the village concert last year. I had them rolling in the aisles. Three encores, and so many bows that I got a crick in the back.""Spare me the tale of your excesses," I said distantly."I wore a sailor suit.""Please," I said, revolted.
    book-quote

  9. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    If she ever turned into a werewolf, it would be one of those jolly breezy werewolves whom it is a pleasure to know.
    book-quote

  10. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    No, I am quite content with you, Bertie. By the way, I do dislike that name Bertie. I think I shall call you Harold. Yes, I am perfectly satisfied with you. You have many faults, of course. I shall be pointing some of them out when I am at leisure.
    book-quote
Categories