Tales of St. Austin's Quotes

“No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Tales of St. Austin's

“The High Street was full of farmers, cows, and other animals, the majority of the former well on the road to intoxication. It is, of course, extremely painful to see a man in such a condition, but when such a person in endeavouring to count a perpetually moving drove of pigs, the onlooker's pain is sensibly diminished.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Tales of St. Austin's

“It is impossible to glean any sense from them, as the Editor mixes up Nipperwick’s view with Sidgeley’s reasoning and Spreckendzedeutscheim’s surmise with Donnerundblitzendorf’s conjecture in a way that seems to argue a thorough unsoundness of mind and morals, a cynical insanity combined with a blatant indecency.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Tales of St. Austin's: Schoolboy Pranks and Hilarious Hijinks by P. G. Wodehouse