Mr. Mulliner Speaking Quotes

“The drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mr. Mulliner Speaking

“Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mr. Mulliner Speaking

“You don't think, John, that you might ultimately come to love Agnes Flack?'
'I do not.'
'Love frequently comes after marriage, I believe.'
'So does suicide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mr. Mulliner Speaking

“I was left in no doubt about the severity of the hangover when a cat stamped into the room.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mr. Mulliner Speaking

“I say, you know', said Dudley, awkwardly, 'if I'm in the way, you know, just speak the word and I'll race off to the local pub. I mean to say, don't want to butt in, I mean.'
'Not at all, Mr--'
'Finch.'
'Not at all, Mr. Finch. I am only too delighted', said Lady Wickham, looking at him as if he were a particularly loathsome slug which had interrupted some beautiful reverie of hers in the rose-garden, 'that you were able to come.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mr. Mulliner Speaking