Pelham Grenville Wodehouse citáty strana 8

„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 slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.”

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

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Citáty anglicky

“A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Luck of the Bodkins

The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

“I don't know if you have ever seen a tiger of the jungle drawing a deep breath preparatory to doing a swan dive and landing with both the feet on the backbone of one of the minor fauna. Probably not, nor, as a matter of fact, have I.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“Routine is the death to heroism.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter of fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.”

The Man Upstairs (1914)

“I had not failed to interpret the significance of that dark frown, that bitten lip and those flashing eyes, nor the way the willowy figure had quivered, indicating, unless she had caught a chill, that she was as sore as a sunburned neck.”

The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)

“At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said "Psst!"”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)

“There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning (1929)

“Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.”

The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)

“We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)

“His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely happy one. He never experienced the thrill of ambition fulfilled, but, on the other hand, he never knew the agony of ambition frustrated. His name, when he died, would not live for ever in England's annals; he was spared the pain of worrying about this by the fact that he had no desire to live for ever in England's annals. He was possibly as nearly contented a human being can be in this century of alarms and excursions.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“In one second, without any previous training or upbringing, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Something Fresh

Something Fresh (1915)

“Stiffy was one of those girls who enjoy in equal quantities the gall of an army mule and the calm insouciance of a fish on a slab of ice.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)

“She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“And a moment later there was a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and the relative had crossed the threshold at fifty m. p. h. under her own steam.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)

“Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“He had been looking like a dead fish. He now looked like a deader fish, one of last year's, cast up on some lonely beach and left there at the mercy of the wind and tides.”

Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)

“For some moments after silence had come like a poultice to heal the blows of sound, all that occupied his mind was the thought of what pests the gentler sex were when they got hold of a telephone. The instrument seemed to go to their heads like a drug. Connie Keeble, for instance. Nice sensible woman when you talked to her face to face, never tried to collar the conversation and all that, but the moment she got on the telephone, it was gab, gab, gab, and all about nothing.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Pigs Have Wings

Pigs Have Wings (1952)

“He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Directing an austere look at Tubby’s receding back, she spoke in a cold crisp voice which sounded in the drowsy stillness like ice tinkling in a pitcher.”

Ukridge (1924)

“Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Summer Moonshine

Summer Moonshine (1938)

“And shove him into a dungeon with dripping walls and see to it that he is well gnawed by rats.”

The Heart of a Goof (1926)

“It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“Don't you like this hat?‘
‘No, sir.‘
‘Well, I do,‘ I replied rather cleverly, and went out with it tilted just that merest shade over the left eye which makes all the difference.”

Blandings Castle (1935)

“I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right. On the other hand, it may not be all right. And pretty silly a chap would feel, no doubt, if, having split the atom, he suddenly found the house going up in smoke and himself torn limb from limb.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.”

P.G. Wodehouse kniha Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)