Leave It to Psmith Quotes

“A depressing musty scent pervaded the place, as if a cheese had recently died there in painful circumstances.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Love, Miss Halliday, is a delicate plant. It needs tending, nurturing, assiduous fostering. This cannot be done by throwing the breakfast bacon at a husband's head.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“He picked up one of the dead bats and covered it with his handkerchief. ‘Somebody’s mother,’ he murmured reverently.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Wait a minute while I think," said Miss Peavey.
There was a pause. Miss Peavey sat with knit brows.
"How would it be..." ventured Mr. Cootes.
"Cheese it!" said Miss Peavey.
Mr. Cootes cheesed it.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“One uses the verb ‘descend’ advisedly, for what is required is some word suggesting instantaneous activity. About Baxter’s progress from the second floor to the first there was nothing halting or hesitating. He, so to speak, did it now. Planting”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend’s best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people’s jewellery.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“But, Ed! Say! Are you going to let him get away with it?"
"Am I going to let him get away with it!" said Mr. Cootes, annoyed by the foolish question. "Wake me up in the night and ask me!"
"But what are you going to do?"
"Do!" said Mr. Cootes. "Do! I'll tell you what I'm going to..." He paused, and the stern resolve that shone in his face seemed to flicker. "Say, what the hell am I going do?" he went on somewhat weakly.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Mere surprise, however, was never enough to prevent Psmith talking.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“It is the opinion of most thoughtful students of life that happiness in this world depends chiefly on the ability to take things as they come. An instance of one who may be said to have perfected this attitude is to be found in the writings of a certain eminent Arabian author who tells of a traveller who, sinking to sleep one afternoon upon a patch of turf containing an acorn, discovered when he woke that the warmth of his body had caused the acorn to germinate and that he was now some sixty feet above the ground in the upper branches of a massive oak. Unable to descend, he faced the situation equably. ‘I cannot,’ he observed, ‘adapt circumstances to my will: therefore I shall adapt my will to circumstances. I decide to remain here.’ Which he did.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“The sun, taken in as usual by the never-failing practical joke of the Daylight Saving Act, had only just set, and a golden afterglow lingered on the fields as the car which had met the train purred over the two miles of country road that separated the little town from the castle.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Planting his foot firmly on a golf-ball which the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, who had been practising putting in the corridor before retiring to bed, had left in his casual fashion just where the steps began, he took the entire staircase in one majestic, volplaning sweep. There were eleven stairs in all separating his landing from the landing below, and the only ones he hit were the third and tenth.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Mere surprise, however, was never enough to prevent Psmith talking. He began at once.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“She was a kind-hearted girl, and it irked her to have to be continually acting as a black frost in Freddie’s garden of dreams.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Mr Keeble stopped after making his announcement, and had to rattle his keys in his pocket in order to acquire the necessary courage to continue.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Mike's emotion took him back to the phraseology of school days.
'You are an ass!”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Hands up!’ said Mr Cootes with the uncouth curtness of one who has not had the advantages of a refined home and a nice upbringing.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“This,’ said Psmith, ‘is becoming more and more gratifying every moment. It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend’s best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people’s jewellery. I cannot see how you can very well resist the conclusion that we are twin-souls.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“When it comes to the smooth stuff, old girl, you’re the oyster’s eye-tooth!”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Lady Constance conveyed the impression that anybody who had the choice between stealing anything from her and stirring up a nest of hornets with a short walking-stick would do well to choose the hornets.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“In the past she had been compelled to describe this man as a hunk of cheese and to express the opinion that his crookedness was such as to enable him to hide at will behind a spiral staircase; but now, in the joy of this unexpected reunion, all these harsh views were forgotten.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“miss-in-baulk.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Charles Peace”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Swedish exercises”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Beale Street Blues.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“he was normally as happy as only a fluffy-minded man with excellent health and a large income can be.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave it to Psmith

“I think that you would find a steady married man an improvement on these wild, flower-pot-throwing bachelors. If it would help to influence your decision, I may say that my bride-to-be is Miss Halliday, probably the finest library-cataloguist in the United Kingdom.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“We shall get into that series of ‘Husbands and Wives Who Work Together.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

“Promptitude—Courtesy—Intelligence”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith