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The Mating Season
P. G. Wodehouse (Author of The Mating Season)

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth, I remember Jeeves saying once, it is to have a thankless child, and it isn’t a dashed sight better having a thankless aunt.” (The Mating Season Quotes)

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover – the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“I don’t know what your experience has been, but mine is that there is very little percentage in having a weight lifted off your mind, because the first thing you know another, probably a dashed sight heavier, is immediately shoved on. It would appear to be a game you can’t beat.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“I have always found it difficult to think of just the right come-back when people say ‘Oh, Bertie!’ to me.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“I have said it before, and I will say it again, all magistrates are asses. Show me a magistrate and I will show you a fathead.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“If there is one thing that is the dish of the decent-minded man, it is seeing misunderstanding between loving hearts cleared up, especially in the springtime.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“In this life it is not aunts that matter but the courage which one brings to them.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“It has been well said of Bertram Wooster that though he may sink onto rustic benches and for a while give the impression of being licked to a custard, the old spirit will always come surging back sooner or later.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“It’s curious how, looking back, you can nearly always spot where you went wrong in any binge or enterprise.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“It’s curious how, when you’re in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“It’s the most extraordinary sensation, swaying a fairly vast audience. It does something to you. It fills you with a sense of power. It makes you feel that you’re a pretty hot number and that you aren’t going to stand any nonsense from anyone.” (The Mating Season Quotes)

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“Nobody can call Bertram Wooster a fussy man, but there are moments when he feels he has to take a firm stand.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“Police constables are not built for speed. Where you catch them at their best is standing on street corners saying ‘Pass along there’.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“The Woosters do not bandy a woman’s name. Nor, for the matter of that, do the Jeeveses.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“There are few things more sickening for a mother than to learn that her only child has eloped with a man whom she has always regarded as a blot on the species.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“There seems to be a lot of low-spiritedness kicking about these days.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up “Let Wooster do it”. I’m not complaining, I’m just mentioning it.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“While there is life, there is hope, sir.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

“You probably consider that you are being broad-minded, but you want to be careful how you let that so-called broad-mindedness grow on you. It is apt to become mere moral myopia.”

P. G. Wodehouse
The Mating Season

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