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.

Comments

[cupidsbow]

+1

[princessofgeeks]

I have a new favorite word.

[copracat]

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