it's hard to say why specific wodehouse quotes are lasting favorites, but...

[cimorene]

Her lips were tightly glued together, her chin protruding, her whole lay-out that of a girl who intended to stand no rannygazoo.

- PG Wodehouse, Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen


...this one's a definite favorite. Maybe it's the vivid and rather aspirational image.

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[cupidsbow]

+1

[princessofgeeks]

I have a new favorite word.

[cimorene]

I looked up the etymology and nobody knows it, but I think I've heard its older forms in playground rhymes: https://www.wordsandphrasesfromthepast.com/bull-blog/rannygazoo#

[copracat]

It's the kind of sentence that makes you long for some rannygazoo.

[cimorene]

Interesting - it makes me sympathize strongly with the girl who doesn't want to stand any more...

[copracat]

And thus a delicious tension is formed and drama happens.

[cimorene]

ooooh, fencing!