Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus Quotes

“You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus: The Mating Season / The Code of the Woosters / Right Ho, Jeeves

“We are living now in what is known as the Welfare State, which means – broadly – that everybody is completely destitute.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 3

“She did drive me in the Park the other day. I thought it rather a hopeful”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 3

“Ask the first lion cub you meet, and it will tell you that, once you’ve tasted blood, there is no pulling up, and it’s the same with opening telegrams.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 3

“He must be provided with a claque. It will be your task, Jeeves,”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 3

“The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 3