Funny / The Code of the Woosters

• "I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
• Bertie's Shout-Out to certain famous detectives:
  I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well.
• Stiffy's term of affection and respect for Jeeves, surely one of the weirdest phrases in literature. Even weirder, Jeeves seems to completely understand it:
  Stiffy: Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit.
  Jeeves: Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.
• Bertie's friend Gussie talks about how he's been writing down insults about his prospective father-in-law and Roderick Spode in a notebook which he misplaced.
  Gussie: Have you ever heard Sir Watkyn Bassett dealing with a bowl of soup? It's not unlike the Scottish express going through a tunnel. Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?
  Bertie: No.
  Gussie: Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.
  Bertie: Those were two of the things you wrote in the book?
  Gussie: I gave them about half a page. They were just trivial, surface faults. The bulk of my researches went much deeper.
  Bertie: I see. You spread yourself?
  Gussie: Very much so.
  Bertie: And it was all bright, snappy stuff?
  Gussie: Every word of it.
  Bertie: That's great. I mean to say, no chance of old Bassett being bored when he reads it.
  Gussie: Reads it?
  Bertie: Well, he's just as likely to find the book as anyone, isn't he?
  Gussie: I never thought of that!
  Bertie: Start now.
• Bertie, upon the immortal discovery of would-be fascist overlord Roderick Spode's secret vocation:
  "You can't be a dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other, surely. Not both."

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