P. G. Wodehouse

"I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back."

"Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love."

"I like to be surrounded by joy and life, and I know nothing more joyless and deader than a dead fish. Multiply that dead fish by a million, and you have an environment which only a Dante could contemplate with equanimity."

"He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin."

"The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say `When!"

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."