P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.P. G. Wodehouse
Quotes to Explore
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
Gayle Forman -
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington Irving -
I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
Samuel Barnett -
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon -
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Baltasar Gracian
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I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.
Rachel Bilson -
I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
Quentin Blake -
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Ovid -
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson -
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
S. J. Perelman -
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
W. C. Fields -
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher -
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. Forster -
My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
Barbara Cooney -
I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
Mackenzie Davis -
I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
Nadia Comaneci
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England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.
Kage Baker -
When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.
Anne M. Mulcahy -
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.
Martin Filler -
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.
E. O. Wilson -
We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.
P. G. Wodehouse