P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle pressure beneath the elbow while crossing a busy street usually fits the bill.
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.
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I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.
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For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.
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I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.
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Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle pressure beneath the elbow while crossing a busy street usually fits the bill.
