Quotes About Attitude

Joy isn't easy or inherent. It is a choice, and not always an easy one—not at first.

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!

Bertie, do you read Tennyson? Not if I can help.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

Abandon the idea, Jeeves. I fear you have not studied the sex as I have. Missing her lunch means little or nothing to the female of the species. The feminine attitude toward lunch is notoriously airy and casual. Where you have made your bloomer is confusing lunch with tea. Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it. At such times the most amiable of the sex become mere bombs which a spark may ignite. Bertie Wooster

It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I've found, as a general rule of life, that the things you think are going to be the scaliest nearly always turn out not so bad after all.

In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I've known him to do it' 'Do what?' 'Not strike lambs

It is never difficult to distinguish between with a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

Trouble, after all, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder

Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those who lived it contemporaneously with himself. He had no enemies and many friends. But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch. One of the two.

His spirit was willing, but his will was not spirited.

Especially if the girl he had earmarked was one of these tough modern thugs, all lipstick and cool, hard, sardonic eyes, as she probably was.

Every man is liable on occasion to behave like a sulky schoolboy

Watching you at work, I was reminded of the young lady of Natchez, whose clothes were all tatters and patches. In alluding to which, she would say, Well, Ah itch, and wherever ah itches, Ah scratches.

If girls realized their responsibilities they would be so careful when they smiled that they would probably abandon the practice altogether. There are moments in a man's life when a girl's smile can have as important results as an explosion of dynamite.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again--girls are rummy. Old Pop Kipling never said a truer word than when he made that crack about the f. of the s. being more d. than the m.

You can't expect an empty aunt to beam like a full aunt.

What if he does think you the world's premier louse? Don't we all?

This whole business of jacking up the soul is one that varies according to what Jeeves calls the psychology of the individual, some being all for it, others not. You take me, for instance. I don't say I've got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I'm perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don't want people fooling about with it. 'Leave it alone,' I say. 'Don't touch it. I like it the way it is.

She did not cease to look like a basilisk, but she began to look like a basilisk who has had a good lunch.

And he was, one could see, at peace with all the world. His daily round of tasks may or may not have been completed, but he was obviously off duty for the moment, and his whole attitude was that of a policeman with nothing on his mind but his helmet.

England still firmly believes that wealth accrues to every resident of New York by some mysterious process not understandable of the Briton.