P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Night
  • Moving
  • Dark