Ickenham Quotes & Sayings

Don't blame me, Pongo,' said Lord Ickenham, 'if Lady Constance takes her lorgnette to you. God bless my soul, though, you can't compare the lorgnettes of to-day with the ones I used to know as a boy. I remember walking one day in Grosvenor Square with my aunt Brenda and her pug dog Jabberwocky, and a policeman came up and said the latter ought to be wearing a muzzle. My aunt made no verbal reply. She merely whipped her lorgnette from its holster and looked at the man, who gave one choking gasp and fell back against the railings, without a mark on him but with an awful look of horror in his staring eyes, as if he had seen some dreadful sight. A doctor was sent for, and they managed to bring him round, but he was never the same again. He had to leave the Force, and eventually drifted into the grocery business. And that is how Sir Thomas Lipton got his start. — P.G. Wodehouse

Don't forget that in pushing policemen into duck ponds the follow through is everything. — P.G. Wodehouse

Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side. — William Shakespeare

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice. — Henry David Thoreau

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry
all literature in fact
to the droppings of the goats among the rocks
mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on. — D.H. Lawrence

I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future. — Nana Mouskouri

I wish people wouldn't tell me I can't do things. — P.G. Wodehouse

You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don't choose to be. — Iyanla Vanzant

It is madness to come to country houses without one's bottle of Mickey Finns. — P.G. Wodehouse

Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just ... try. — Victoria Scott