P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

"As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over."

"One of the first lessons life teaches us is that on these occasions of back-chat between the delicately-natured, a man should retire into the offing, curl up in a ball, and imitate the prudent tactics of the opossum, which, when danger is in the air, pretends to be dead, frequently going to the length of hanging out crêpe and instructing its friends to gather round and say what a pity it all is."

"Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove."

"Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous."

"The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number."