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The Gem Collector QUOTES

The Gem Collector QUOTES

1 " Journeys end in lovers meeting. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

2 " I really preferred to walk. I have only just landed in England from New York, and it's quite a treat to walk on an English country road again. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

3 " In a cozy corner of the electric flame department of the infernal regions there stands a little silver gridiron. It is the private property of his Satanic majesty, and is reserved exclusively for the man who invented amateur theatricals. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

4 " distance lends enchantment to the view, "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

5 " The water as a topic of conversation dried up. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

6 " I knew a man once who stammered," said Jimmy. "He used to chew dog biscuit while he was speaking. It cured him. Besides being nutritious. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

7 " Between camaraderie and love there is a broad gulf. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

8 " This man's brother I was telling you about," said Spennie, "says there's only one rhyme in the English language to 'burglar', and that's 'gurgler'. Unless you count 'pergola', he says—— "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

9 " Every man is liable on occasion to behave like a sulky schoolboy "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

10 " The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

11 " Nothing upsets a fowl more than having to wait for dinner. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

12 " It's a hell for the poor, in New York. An iron, grinding city. It frightens you. It's so big and hard and cruel. It takes the fight out of you. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

13 " England still firmly believes that wealth accrues to every resident of New York by some mysterious process not understandable of the Briton. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

14 " Whatever his faults, he had strength; and after her experience of married life with a weak man, Lady Jane had come to the conclusion that strength was the only male quality worth consideration. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

15 " You know, you smoke too much, Pat," said his wife, seizing the opening with the instinct which makes an Irishman at a fair hit every head he sees. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

16 " There was nothing of the flaneur about the Bowery boy. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

17 " Even Spike himself seemed to be aware that there were points in his appearance which would have distressed the editor of a men's fashion paper. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

18 " Life," said Wesson, who had had time for reflection, "is a house which we all burgle. We enter it uninvited, take all that we can lay hands on, and go out again. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

19 " Besides, a burglar is only a practical socialist. Philosophers talk a lot about the redistribution of wealth. The burglar goes out and does it. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector

20 " Lady Jane held the English view that visitors like to be left to themselves. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Gem Collector