A selection of rib-tickling quotes to cheer you up!

Which one is your favourite?

“I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish, and I don’t suppose I have ever come much closer to saying ‘Tra-la-la’ as I did the lathering, for I was feeling in mid-season form this morning.”
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

“I hadn’t the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.”
Leave It To Jeeves

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked like he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ‘When.’”
Carry On, Jeeves

“It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can’t help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.”
Jeeves in the Morning

“The voice of love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
Very Good, Jeeves

“I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.”
Jeeves Takes Charge

“Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welter-weight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to have to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover.”
Carry On, Jeeves

“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, ‘Do trousers matter?'”
“The mood will pass, sir.”
The Code of the Woosters

“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.”
Uneasy Money

“’What ho!’ I said.
‘What ho!’ said Motty.
‘What ho! What ho!’
‘What ho! What ho! What ho!’
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.”
My Man, Jeeves

‘It was one of those still evenings you get in the summer, when you can hear a snail clear its throat a mile away.’
Carry On, Jeeves

“That’s the way to get on in the world – by grabbing your opportunities. Why, what’s Big Ben but a wrist-watch that saw its chance and made good?”
Small Bachelor

“She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.”
Carry on, Jeeves

“Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.”
Meet Mr Mulliner