Summer Lightning
P.G. Wodehouse
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.”
“She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.”
“Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.”
“I don't get your drift." "I will continue snowing.”
“He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow.”
“No love could stand up against the sight of me in a sailor suit at the age of ten. I”
“Experience, dearly bought in the days of his residence at the University, had taught him that when the Law gripped you with its talons the only thing to do was to give a false name, say nothing and hope for the best.”
“You don't need a hat to tax a man with stealing a pig,' said the Hon. Galahad, who was well versed in the manners and rules of good society.”
“Properly considered, there is no such thing as an insoluble mystery. It may seem puzzling at first sight when ex-secretaries start falling as the gentle rain from heaven upon the lobelias beneath, but there is always a reason for it.”
“Of course I think so. Have you forgotten what I told you the other day?’ ‘Yes,’ said Lord Emsworth. He always forgot what people told him the other day.”
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Book Keywords:
moroseness, humor, jealousy, sombre-mood, puns, disappointment, marriage, ibsen, unhappiness, engagement, expression
