Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields and a bowling alley.
Quotes on humour
Man may change, government may change, people may change but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
It’s the old headpiece that makes a man, the rest is all rubbish.
You’re giving up the hunt for de Taillebourg?’ Thomas asked. He had learned the priest’s name from Robbie. ‘No.’ Robbie still had his head back as he stared at the magnificence of the transept’s ceiling. ‘I’ll find him and then I’ll gralloch the bastard.’ Thomas did not know what gralloch meant, but decided the word was bad news for de Taillebourg.
Who’s possessing who now, Casper?
Kapag si Aga Muhlach ang nanligaw, ready o hindi ready, Re-ready yan kasi gusto siya eh.
It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying “Wow,
[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]:
You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more can’t possibly hurt you, because you know you can pull up whenever you feel like it, but it is merely wish-full thinking. The craving has gripped you and there is no resisting it.
You have passed the point of no return.
We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.
Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich.