“The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.”

— P.G. Wodehouse (from Heavy Weather)

“Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welterweight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to face over the breakfast table.”

— Bertie Wooster in “Carry On, Jeeves”, P.G. Wodehouse

“It seemed to me, thinking quick, that the only way of solving the [impasse] was to sacrifice Shorty. Like Russian peasants with their children, you know, when they are pursued by wolves and it becomes imperative to lighten the sledge.”

— Mike Cardinal in Spring Fever, Chapter 17, by P.G. Wodehouse