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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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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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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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
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For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.
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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.
