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“Le cose buone della vita sono illegali, immorali o fanno ingrassare.”

“I gatti, come categoria, non hanno mai completamente superato il complesso di superiorità dovuto al fatto che, nell'antico Egitto, erano adorati come dei.”

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Origine: Citato in Rachael Hale, Centouno cataclismi. Per amore dei gatti, Contrasto, 2004, p. 24.

“Se le donne comprendessero le proprie responsabilità baderebbero bene a sorridere; tanto bene che probabilmente non lo farebbero.”

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Origine: Qualche cosa di nuovo, p. 117

“Vi sono nella vita di un uomo momenti in cui il sorriso di una donna può avere risultati importanti quanto quelli di una esplosione di dinamite.”

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Origine: Qualche cosa di nuovo, p. 117

“C'è qualcosa, nel modo in cui la primavera si manifesta in Inghilterra, che mi ricorda un cucciolo timido che cerca di farsi degli amici. Fa un avventato passo avanti, se la svigna terrorizzato, poi striscia di nuovo in avanti, timoroso, e infine, acquistata fiducia, si avventa con impeto e gioia.”

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Origine: La conquista di Londra, p. 72

“Uno dei deliziosi aspetti della primavera inglese è che ha dei giorni, anzi, è quasi del tutto composta di giorni in cui, al tramonto, la temperatura è tale da rendere gradevole un fuoco, anzi persino necessario.”

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Origine: La conquista di Londra, p. 147

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“Uno dei difetti di Londra dal punto di vista di un uomo il cui cuore sia appena andato a pezzi è che è praticamente priva di luoghi selvaggi in cui si possa avanzare con sguardo impenetrabile.”

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Origine: La conquista di Londra, p. 235

“Era una bella mattinata. Si è già parlato dell'insensibilità della Natura nei momenti di umana sofferenza; basterà dire che in tale occasione la Natura era più che all'altezza della sua reputazione.”

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Origine: La conquista di Londra, p. 235

“Il cammino del progresso ha tolto a Waterloo Station i suoi misteri. Un tempo era stato uno strano, oscuro Paese delle meraviglie in cui Alici spaurite e i loro corrispettivi maschili vagavano disperati, chiedendo informazioni a funzionari altrettanto ignari e sperduti: ora invece era ordinata ed efficiente.”

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Origine: La conquista di Londra, p. 242

“Il ritorno del figliol prodigo è quasi proverbialmente legato a effervescenti manifestazioni di gioia da parte dell'intera compagnia con, forse, la sola eccezione del vitello ingrassato.”

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Origine: La conquista di Londra, p. 266

“Placida, stolida, assorta nelle sue faccende e titanicamente indifferente a tutto il resto, Londra si avviava al suo tran tran quotidiano. Da Putney a Sloane Square, da Cricklewood a Regent Street, da Sydenham Hill allo Strand, da qualsiasi posto a qualsiasi altro posto, autobus rossi, gialli e marroni passavano rombando di continuo. I vigili vigilavano, gli agenti di borsa badavano alla borsa, i mendicanti mendicavano, i cappellai smerciavano cappelli, i poltroni poltrivano, i venditori di ghette vendevano ghette, i giornalai strillavano l'edizione delle tre dei giornali del pomeriggio, e i colonnelli in pensione sedevano comodamente alle finestre dei club di fronte a Piccadilly e Pall Mall, sognando il pranzo.”

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Origine: La conquista di Londra, p. 293

“Il grande segreto dell'eterna giovinezza: far sempre circolare la bottiglia e non andare mai a letto prima delle quattro del mattino.”

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Origine: Da Luna piena, ciclo di Blandings.

“Anna parlava allegramente del più e del meno e io tacevo, perché la mia anima non era che un cumulo di emozioni ribollenti.”

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“Di tutte le cure intese a guarire un uomo da riflessioni malinconiche, quella di più immediata efficacia consiste in un colpo violento al plesso solare. Esempi antichi e recenti ce lo dimostrano.”

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Origine: La piccola pepita, p. 86

“Le fandonie, come tu le chiami, mentre io le definisco la modellazione artistica della verità, le fandonie, dunque, sono… come dirò?”

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Origine: Jill, ragazza bizzarra, p. 176

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: Frasi in inglese

“It's only about once in a lifetime that anything sensational ever happens to one, and when it does, you don't want people taking all the colour out of it. I remember at school having to read that stuff where that chap, Othello, tells the girl what a hell of a time he'd been having among the cannibals and what not. Well, imagine his feelings if, after he had described some particularly sticky passage with a cannibal chief and was waiting for the awestruck "Oh-h! Not really?", she had said that the whole thing had no doubt been greatly exaggerated and that the man had probably really been a prominent local vegetarian.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)

“His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro The Girl in Blue

The Girl in Blue (1970)

“… "someone tried to assasinate Lenin with a revolver. That is our (Russia's) great national sport, you see."”

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P.G. Wodehouse

The Clicking Of Cuthbert (1922)

“[of Spode] He was, as I had already been able to perceive, a breath-taking cove. About seven feet in height, and swathed in a plaid ulster which made him look about six feet across, he caught the eye and arrested it. It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla and had changed its mind at the last moment.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Contenting myself, accordingly, with a gesture of loving sympathy, I left the room. Whether she did or did not throw a handsomely bound volume of the Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, at me, I am not in a position to say. I had seen it lying on the table beside her, and as I closed the door I remember receiving the impression that some blunt instrument had crashed against the woodwork, but I was feeling too pre-occupied to note and observe.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“‘When I say “mind,”’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)

“He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Big Money

Big Money (1931)

“A certain critic—for such men, I regret to say, do exist—made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained ‘all the old Wodehouse characters under different names’. He has probably now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled this man by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy. (From preface)”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning (1929)

“There is about him something that seems to soothe and hypnotize. To the best of my knowledge, he has never encountered a charging rhinoceros, but should this contingency occur, I have no doubt that the animal, meeting his eye, would check itself in mid-stride, roll over and lie purring with its legs in the air.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Anybody can talk me round. If I were in a Trappist monastery, the first thing that would happen would be that some smooth performer would lure me into some frightful idiocy against my better judgment by means of the deaf-and-dumb language.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“I’d always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn’t even put her in the oven.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)

“Didn't Frankenstein get married?'
'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas (1936)

“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. Brainy, moreover.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Carry On, Jeeves

Carry On, Jeeves (1925)

“To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi…”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro The Girl in Blue

The Girl in Blue (1970)

“Alf Todd,’ said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ‘has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat’s ear with a red-hot needle.”

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Ukridge (1924)

“The junior partner of Caine and Cooper, though a man of blameless life, had one of those dark, saturnine faces which suggest a taste for the more sinister forms of crime, and on one cheek of that dark, saturnine face was a long scar. Actually it had been caused by the bursting of a gingerbeer bottle at a Y. M. C. A. picnic, but it gave the impression of being the outcome of battles with knives in the cellars of the underworld.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Pigs Have Wings

Pigs Have Wings (1952)

“The female in question was a sloppy pest”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but a thing I have found in life is that from time to time, as you jog along, there occur moments which you are able to recognize immediately with the naked eye as high spots. Something tells you that they are going to remain etched, if etched is the word I want, for ever on the memory and will come back to you at intervals down the years, as you are dropping off to sleep, banishing that drowsy feeling and causing you to leap on the pillow like a gaffed salmon.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“I consider that of all the dashed silly, drivelling ideas I ever heard in my puff this is the most blithering and futile. It won't work. Not a chance.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“I've seen him a couple of times in the arena, and was profoundly impressed by his virtuosity. Rugby football is more or less a sealed book to me, I never having gone in for it, but even I could see he was good. The lissomness with which he moved hither and thither was most impressive, as was his homicidal ardour when doing what I believe is called tackling. Like the Canadian Mounted Police he always got his man, and when he did so the air was vibrant with the excited cries of the morticians in the audience making bids for the body.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“…as I felt my way along the wall I collided with what turned out to be a grandfather clock, for the existence of which I had not budgeted, and it toppled over with a sound like the delivery of several tons of coal through the roof of a conservatory. Glass crashed, pulleys and things parted from their moorings, and as I stood trying to separate my heart from the front teeth in which it had become entangled, the lights flashed on and I beheld Sir Watkyn Bassett.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“I was expecting Pop Bassett to give an impersonation of a bomb falling on an ammunition dump, but he didn’t. Instead, he continued to exhibit that sort of chilly stiffness which you see in magistrates when they’re fining people five quid for boyish peccadilloes.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“On his good mornings, I don't suppose there are more than a handful of men in the W. 1 postal district of London swifter to spot oompus-boompus than Bertram Wooster, and this was one of my particularly good mornings. I saw the whole hideous plot.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

“He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

“Oh, yes, he thinks a lot of you. I remember his very words. 'Mr Wooster, miss' he said 'is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible but he has a heart of gold”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Thank You, Jeeves

Thank You, Jeeves (1934)

“My Aunt Agatha, for instance, is tall and thin and looks rather like a vulture in the Gobi desert, while Aunt Dahlia is short and solid, like a scrum half in the game of Rugby football. In disposition, too, they differ widely. Aunt Agatha is cold and haughty, though presumably unbending a bit when conducting human sacrifices at the time of the full moon, as she is widely rumoured to do, and her attitude towards me has always been that of an austere governess, causing me to feel as if I were six years old and she had just caught me stealing jam from the jam cupboard: whereas Aunt Dahlia is as jovial and bonhomous as a dame in a Christmas pantomime.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)

“As far as the eye could reach, I found myself gazing on a surging sea of aunts. There were tall aunts, short aunts, stout aunts, thin aunts, and an aunt who was carrying on a conversation in a low voice to which nobody seemed to be paying the slightest attention.”

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P.G. Wodehouse libro The Mating Season

The Mating Season (1949)

“What I want to know is what a fellow does when he plays golf. Tell me in as few words as you can just what it's all about. -- You hit a ball with a stick until it falls into a hole.”

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