Blandings Castle Quotes

“It is never difficult to distinguish between with a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle

“Filled with a coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was undisguisedly a bronchial white flag.”
― P.G. Wodehouse , Blandings Castle

“Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons. And Freddie Threepwood was one of those younger sons who rather invite the jaundiced eye.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle

“Presently, the cow’s audience-appeal began to wane. It was a fine cow, as cows go, but, like so many cows, it lacked sustained dramatic interest.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle

“Lord Emsworth had one of those minds capable of accommodating but one thought at a time--if that.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle

“The reactions of a country-house party to an after-dinner dog-fight in the drawing-room always vary considerably according to the individual natures of its members. Lady”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle

“One of the things which have caused the making of motion pictures to be listed among the Dangerous Trades is the fact that it has been found impossible to dispense with the temperamental female star. . . . Every Hortensia Burwash picture grossed five million, but in the making of them she was extremely apt, if thwarted in some whim, to run amok, sparing neither age nor sex.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle

“Below him, the woolly dog raged like the ocean at the base of a cliff.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle

“There is a point beyond which the human brain loses its kinship with the Infinite and becomes a mere seething mass of deleterious passions. Malays,”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle