Pelham Grenville Wodehouse citáty strana 6

„Zdálo se, že mě volá hlas Lásky, ale byl to jen omyl.“

„Zrzavé vlasy, pane, jsou podle mého názoru nebezpečné.“

„Není jistějšího základu pro krásné přátelství než shodný vkus v literatuře.“

„A má dost mozků na dva, což je přesné množství, které bude dívka, která se vdá, potřebovat.“

„Je dobrým pravidlem v životě se nikdy neospravedlňovat. Ti správní lidé od vás nebudou chtít omluvu a ti nesprávní ho podlo využijí.“

„Měl výraz člověka, který vypil pohár života a na jeho dně našel mrtvého brouka.“

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Citáty o životě

„Důležitá věc v životě, jestliže chcete být šťastni a zdárně prospívat, je zmeškat tolik politických debat, kolik můžete.“

„Manželství neprodlužuje lásce život, pouze mumifikuje její mrtvolu.“

„Věnuji tuto knihu své drahé ženě a své milé dceři, bez jejichž neúnavné pomoci a ochotných rad bych ji byl napsal dvakrát dříve.“

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Citáty o ženách

„Mračí-li se civilizovaný člověk na ženu, je to náhražkou za to, že ji nebije.“

„Jakmile se žena dostane do úzkých, jejím prvním činem je svalit vinu na nejbližšího mužského.“

„Zaručený způsob, jak žena dosáhne toho, aby se dotírající muž držel zpátky, je provdat se za něho.“

„Soudci jako třída prokazují při stanovení alimentů onu lehkomyslnou štědrost, s níž se setkáváme jen u lidí, kteří rozdávají cizí peníze.“

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse citáty a výroky

„Vždy v okamžiku, kdy začínáme mít dojem, že nám všechno vychází, objeví se nám za zády osud s kusem olověné trubky v ruce…“

„Žádná bolest se nevyrovná bolesti muže, který touží po rychlém doušku lihoviny a nemůže jej dostat.“

„Komorník je slavností procesí o jedné osobě.“

Zdroj: P. G. Wodehouse: Až naprší a uschne, Vyšehrad 1982, str. 78

„Jen tak sedím u psacího stroje a trochu nadávám.“

„Když si dívka myslí, že ji milujete, a říká, že si vás vezme, nemůžete dobře prohlásit, že byste se radši viděl mrtvý ve škarpě.“

v roce 1956

“A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.”

Zdroj: P. G. Wodehouse: Vřelé díky, Jeevesi, Práce 1986, str. 6

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Citáty anglicky

“He’s engaged to be married to Stiffy Byng, and his long years of football should prove an excellent preparation for setting up house with her. The way I look at it is that when a fellow has had plug-uglies in cleated boots doing a Shuffle-off-to-Buffalo on his face Saturday after Saturday since he was a slip of a boy, he must get to fear nothing, not even marriage with a girl like Stiffy, who from early childhood has seldom let the sun go down without starting some loony enterprise calculated to bleach the hair of one and all.”

Blandings Castle (1935)

“It was one of those cold, clammy, accusing sort of eyes--the kind that makes you reach up to see if your tie is straight: and he looked at me as I were some sort of unnecessary product which Cuthbert the Cat had brought in after a ramble among the local ash-cans.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“Mere abuse is no criticism.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Quick Service

Quick Service (1940)

“I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“He had that self-reproachful feeling of having been remiss which comes to Generals who wake up one morning to discover that they have carelessly allowed themselves to be outflanked.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)

“Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?'
'No.'
'Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Cocktail Time

Cocktail Time (1958)

“While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.”

The Heart of a Goof (1926)

“As plainly as if it had been the top line on the oculist’s chart I could see what the future held for Bertram.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Scarcely had I entered the sitting-room when I found … what appeared at first sight to be the Devil, A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.”

The Clicking Of Cuthbert (1922)

“Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“"Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary," murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words "Elementary, my dear Watson" has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas (1936)

“It was a cold, disapproving gaze, such as a fastidious luncher who was not fond of caterpillars might have directed at one which he had discovered in his portion of salad…”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Psmith, Journalist

Psmith, Journalist (1915)

“Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Sunset at Blandings

Sunset at Blandings (1977 (posthumously published))

“It seemed to me, thinking quick, that the only way of solving the am-parce [impasse] was to sacrifice Shorty. Like Russian peasants with their children, you know, when they are pursued by wolves and it becomes imperative to lighten the sledge.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Spring Fever

Spring Fever (1948)

“You must remember, Father,’ said Mavis, in a voice which would have had an Eskimo slapping his ribs and calling for the steam-heat, ‘that this girl was probably very pretty. So many of these New York girls are. That would, of course, explain Frederick's behaviour.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)

“Whatever may be said in favour of the Victorians, it is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Young Men in Spats

Young Men in Spats (1936)

“I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Summer Moonshine

Summer Moonshine (1938)

“Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Lord Emsworth and Others

Lord Emsworth and Others (1937)

“Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Luck of the Bodkins

The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

“Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Carry On, Jeeves

Carry On, Jeeves (1925)

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' (quoting John Greenleaf Whittier)”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)