Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1) QUOTES

2 " The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1)

4 " Have you ever seen a man, woman, or child who wasn’t eating an egg or just going to eat an egg or just coming away from eating an egg? I tell you, the good old egg is the foundation of daily life. Stop the first man you meet in the street and ask him which he’d sooner lose, his egg or his wife, and see what he says! "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1)

6 " I was in that painful condition which occurs when one has lost one's first wind and has not yet got one's second. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1)

8 " The coops were finished. They were not masterpieces, and I have seen chickens pause before them in deep thought, as who should say: "Now what in the world have we struck here?" But they were coops, within the meaning of the act, and we induced the hens to become tenants. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1)

10 " I went into the kitchen ten minutes back. The cat was sitting on the mat."

Beale's narrative style closely resembled that of a certain book I had read in my infancy. I wish I could remember its title. It was a well-written book. "

― P.G. Wodehouse , Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1)