## Metadata - Author: [[P.G. Wodehouse]] - Full Title: The Inimitable Jeeves - Category: #books ## Highlights *** > IF THERE’S ONE thing I like, it’s a quiet life. I’m not one of those fellows who get all restless and depressed if things aren’t happening to them all the time. You can’t make it too placid for me. Give me regular meals, a good show with decent music every now and then, and one or two pals to totter round with, and I ask no more. ([Location 704](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0031RSBPK&location=704)) *** > Dashed difficult it is to start things going properly on an occasion like this. A fellow living in a London flat is so handicapped. I mean to say, if I had been the young squire greeting the visitor in the country, I could have said, ‘Welcome to Meadowsweet Hall!’ or something zippy like that. It sounds silly to say ‘Welcome to Number 6A, Crichton Mansions, Berkeley Street, W.’ ([Location 1052](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0031RSBPK&location=1052)) *** > I didn’t laugh, but I distinctly heard a couple of my floating ribs part from their moorings under the strain. ([Location 1082](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0031RSBPK&location=1082)) *** > But just then the most frightful shindy started in the bedroom. It sounded as though all the cats in London, assisted by delegates from outlying suburbs, had got together to settle their differences once for all. A sort of augmented orchestra of cats. ([Location 1105](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0031RSBPK&location=1105))