Цитаты из произведения Jeeves in the Offing — стр. 2

Любовный жар прошел, пелена спала с глаз, мы просто добрые друзья. В чем беда всех влюбленных, престарелая родственница? В том, что зачастую особи одного пола выбирают неподходящих для них особей противоположного пола, поскольку ослеплены прелестями этих последних и не в состоянии судить здраво. Попробую пояснить. Все…

...Но ты уверенна, что план сработает? - Обязательно сработает. Рассмотрим сходную ситуацию. Предположим, в одно прекрасное утро тетя Далия прочтет в газете, что на рассвете тебя расстреляют. - Исключено. Я в такую рань не встаю.

'One wonders where she picks up such expressions.' 'From her literary friends, I suppose. She knows a lot of literary people.' 'Great help to the vocabulary.'

'Did young Bobbie Wickham tell you that you'd got to stick to Wilbert closer than –' 'A brother?' 'I was going to say porous plaster, but have it your own way.'

Jeeves once saying that sleep knits up the ravelled sleave of care. Balm of hurt minds, he described it as. The idea being, I took it, that if things are getting sticky, they tend to seem less glutinous after you've had your eight hours.

I had always supposed that playboys didn't give a hoot for anything except blondes and cold bottles. It just showed once again that half the world doesn't known how the other three-quarters lives.

'I am not at all easy in my mind about this man. He has a criminal face.' 'Well, you might say that about Bertie.'

If Roberta Wickham has one fault more pronounced than another, it is that she is inclined to introduce me to people as if I were something she would much have preferred to hush up.

The woman she was addressing was tall and thin with a hawk-like face that reminded me of Sherlock Holmes. She had an ink spot on her nose, the result of working on her novel of suspense. It is virtually impossible to write a novel of suspense without getting a certain amount of ink on the beezer. Ask Agatha Christie or…

'Oh, dear!' she said. 'I must run. Daddy doesn't like me to be late for tea. He says it's not respectful to my elders.' I could see trembling on Wilbert Cream's lips a suggestion as to where Daddy could stick himself and his views on respect to elders, but with a powerful effort he held it back.