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.
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.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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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.
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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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.
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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?
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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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.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!
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I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.
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I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
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For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.
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It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.
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We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.
