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Jill the Reckless QUOTES

Jill the Reckless QUOTES

1 " No wonder Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoi's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city reservoir, he turns to the cupboard, only to find the vodka bottle empty. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

2 " This woman always made Freddie feel as if he were being disemboweled by some clumsy amateur. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

3 " A little," panted Mrs. Peagrim, who, though she danced often and vigorously, was never in the best of condition, owing to her habit of neutralizing the beneficent effects of exercise by surreptitious candy-eating. "I'm a little out of breath. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

4 " Lady Underhill, having said all she had to say, recovered her breath and began to say it again. Frequent iteration was one of her strongest weapons. As her brother Edwin, who was fond of homely imagery, had often observed, she could talk the hind-leg off a donkey. "You "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

5 " She was a shrewd woman, and knew that the art of life is to know when to stop talking. What words have accomplished, too many words can undo. "Good-bye. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

6 " Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

7 " Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? It's like collaborating with a man you dislike.... "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

8 " I suppose the cave-woman sometimes felt rather relieved when everything was settled for her with a club, but I'm sure the caveman must have had a hard time ridding himself of the thought that he had behaved like a cad and taken a mean advantage. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

9 " The train began to give up its contents, now in ones and twos, now in a steady stream. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

10 " This woman always made Freddie feel as if he were being disembowelled by some clumsy amateur. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

11 " jezail-bullets. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

12 " Most of the Underhills came into the world looking as though they meant to drive their way through life like a wedge. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

13 " If it is bad to be all dressed up and no place to go, it is almost worse to be full of talk and to have no one to talk it to. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

14 " It is safest for the historian, if he values accuracy, to wait till a thing has happened before writing about it. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless

15 " It is a disturbing thought that we suffer in this world just as much by being prudent and taking precautions as we do by being rash and impulsive and acting as the spirit moves us. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Jill the Reckless