Fic help, please!

[juliacarmen.livejournal.com]

You know how there are things you suspect  Jeeves would use a quotation to say? Things like: 'cheer up, bad things happen to everyone' are usually said with a quote from Marcus Aurelius, for e.g.
There are a few quotations in my fic. But not being very well-read or particularly good at Googling, I haven't managed to find the quotes to meet the words I need Jeeves to say.

There are three quotes I'm missing:

1. What quote would Jeeves use to get Bertie out of bed? I was hoping for a quote about the day getting on, sun rising in the sky, etc. I thought I'd find a good quote from Shakespeare, but all I found was some gaff about oily lids.

2. I need an equivalent for "the grass is always greener on the other side." Something about men never being happy with their lot.

3. ...Well, I promised no spoilers. But I have already spoiled for this bit. I need a quotation that would be Jeeves way of saying "hot damn, this feels good!" The word ecstasy would probably figure into it somewhere...

Thanks in advance for your help!

Comments

[kill-claudio.livejournal.com]

1. "Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day/ Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.", which is from Romeo and Juliet, perhaps? There's also a Browning quote; "The year's at the spring/ And day's at the morn;/ Morning's at seven;/ The hillside's dew-pearled;" which is part of the same poem as the lark and snail thing, and therefore definitely something Jeeves would know.

2. Marcus Aurelius is usually good for a few sanctimonious quotes about sin and stuff, but I can't think of anything off-hand that would fit here. I know there used to be an old English saying, 'Envy never enriched any man'. Sounds like the kind of thing Jeeves' father might have said to him. But it might not quite fit the meaning you're looking for.

3. I'm really having trouble with this one, because Jeeves so rarely expresses strong emotions. I suppose you could go with some more Shakespeare (from Much Ado); "Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much."

[juliacarmen.livejournal.com]

1. The Browning quote is cool! Thanks!

3. Yes. It's particularly difficult as he's kinda... busy at the moment, so I don't think he could manage a quote more than ten words long ;-}

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

I'm going to sit here and imagine what he's busy doing, if you don't mind.

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

*wicked grin*
Ahhh... the ideas that spring to mind.

[niektete.livejournal.com]

I find that Jeeves' "Sir!" usually expresses a whole lot; I use it whenever possible XD

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that the Browning quote is well-known enough for even Bertie to have cited it in canon. Isn't it in the same chapter as "I'm going into the park to do pastoral dances"?

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

That first quote I came across recently reading the Wooster Proposes Jeeves Disposes book. I can't remember what story it occurs in, but the authour quotes Jeeves quoting most of that poem, including that line, for Bertie, rather in the manner of a bed-time story. It's definitely a favourite of his, and Bertie likes to hear it, so it would be an awesome choice!