My Own Quotes

These are quotes from my own collection, ones that I've found in books or said myself or have heard family say. Enjoy!


Actual email conversation regarding a volkswagon bus for sale in internet classifieds:
Subject:Bus
is it gone?

Subject:Re:Bus
it's gone


The Honorable Freddie came out of his book much as a sleepwalker wakes--with a sense of having been violently assaulted. He looked up with a kind of stunned plaintiveness.---P G Wodehouse, Something New

The modern young man may do adventurous things if they are thrust on him; but left to himself he will edge away uncomfortably and look in the other direction when the goddess of adventure smiles at him. Training and tradition alike pluck at his sleeve and urge him not to risk making himself ridiculous. And from sheer horror of laying himself open to the charge of not minding his own business he falls into a stolid disregard of all that is out of the ordinary and exciting. He tells himself that the shriek from the lonely house he passed just now was only the high note of some amateur songstress, and that the maiden in distress whom he saw pursued by the ruffian with a knife was merely earning the salary paid her by some motion-picture firm. And he proceeds on his way, looking neither to left nor right.---P G Wodehouse, Something New

Their eyes met and there was nothing for it but to talk; so she tucked away her hostility in a corner of her mind, where she could find it again when she wanted it, and prepared for the time being to be friendly.---P G Wodehouse, Something New

This was a girl who would take chances, but would take them with a smile and laugh when she lost.---P G Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress

"I suppose you are wondering what it's all about?" she said.
This was precisely what George was wondering most consumedly.
"No, no," he said. "Not at all. It's not my business."
"And of course you're much too well bred to be inquisitive about other people's business?"
"Of course I am. What was it all about?"
"I'm afraid I can't tell you."
[...]
The girl started.
"What's the matter?" asked George.
"I've lost my purse!"
"Good Lord! Had it much in it?"
"Not very much. But enough to buy a ticket home."
"Any use asking where that is?"
"None, I'm afraid."
"I wasn't going to, of course."
"Of course not. That's what I admire so much in you. You aren't inquisitive."---P G Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress

"Have you ever had a what-do-you-call it? What's the word I want? One of those things fellows get sometimes."
"Headaches?" hazarded George.
"No, no. Nothing like that. I don't mean anything you get--I mean something you get, if you know what I mean."---P G Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress

). An epicure dining at Crew
Once found a large mouse in his stew.
Said the waiter, "Don't shout,
and wave it about
Or the rest will be wanting one, too!"---Aunt Terri

[...]and most of the time she certainly felt more mature than anyone seemed willing to give her credit for.---Time at the Top, Edward Ormondroyd

Eliza's reaction to being called a crazy girl was different. In the process of her reaction a chair leg came off and the floor was scratched, but no one was seriously hurt.--Knight's Castle, Edward Eager

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime; keep back the tears and look a little pale abou the lips, and in answer to inquiries say,"Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts--not to hurt others.---Middlemarch, George Eliot
(I'm not sure I agree that that is the right thing to do, but it struck me as what really so often happens.)

The sense of humor is a very valuable posession in life, and ought to be cultivated in the Board schools.---Allan Quatermain, H Rider Haggard

"What actresses women are!"--Allan Quatermain, H Rider Haggard

"[...]for in the end, whatever sneering people may say, what is good and what is happy are the same [...] for the world is full if suffering, my dear, and to alleviate it is the noblest end that we can set before us.---Allan Quatermain, H Rider Haggard

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