Friday, April 29, 2005

class quotes

say it after me- wiki anything is god. you know you want to :D

i was clicking on "random page" when on the 6th or 7th click (after daniel stern, list of suburbs in victoria, lik-sang.com and others of that ilk) i landed on p.g.wodehouse. serendipity! i went to wikiquotes from there and i've been spending the last one hour lokking thro quotes by jeeves, honoria glossop, bertie, bingo, elmsworth, psmith, and others.

i know it sounds like im jobless. i have work to do, but somethings are more important than a paycheck. :D

fav quotes from wodehouse - (did ya know its pronounced woodhouse?? the things you learn from wiki!)
  • And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
  • He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.
  • 'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.
  • It is not aunts that matter, but the courage that one brings to them.
  • Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.
  • A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
  • I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
  • Mere abuse is no criticism.
  • The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

these are all from wikiquote but when i find more i'll put them here.

i wonder who this "you" person is? i have this mental image of a software programmer, with that inescapable id card, spectacles, oily hair (ugh), in an orange cubicle in a large room full of orange cubicles, reading this and wondering why on earth s/he came to this link :D yes? no? maybe?

1 comment:

  1. nice meera, i SO approve. wodehouse is GOD no less. anyway, theres some more gems. one of my faves is on ur list act'ly...i could see that if not exactly disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled, so I tactfully changed the subject. thats one line which forms pretty much everyday conv at my home!!!

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