I Like Pg Wodehouse(A boy is chasing another boy trying to throw a bucket of water over him; the boy dodges and an old man gets in the way and is drenched:) 'In one second, without any experience or training, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.'
I Like Pg Wodehouse"He looked like a bishop who has just discovered Schism and Doubt among the minor clergy'"
I Like Pg Wodehouse"'I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy."
I Like Pg Wodehouse"My family are greatly respected in the neighborhood, but I personally have always looked upon them as a gang of blood-imbrued plug-uglies."
I Like Pg Wodehouse"I have always held, rightly I think, that nothing eases the tension of a difficult situation like a well-spotted bit of blackmail."
I Like Pg Wodehouse"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."
I Like Pg Wodehouse"The shock to Colonel Wedge of finding that what he had taken for a pile of old clothes was alive and a relation by marriage caused him to speak a little sharply." - Full Moon
I Like Pg Wodehouse"She looked like something that might have occurred to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments."
I Like Pg Wodehouse"It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy."
I Like Pg Wodehouse"I still maintain that he should have been locked up in a padded cell with the board of Lunancy Commissioners sitting on his head."
I Like Pg WodehouseThe only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that here was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg. - Sonny Boy, Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets
I Like Pg WodehouseI turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanor was now rather like that of one, who picking up daises on the railway, has just caught the down express on the small of the back. - The Inimitable Jeeves
I Like Pg WodehouseThe face was drawn, the eyes haggard, the general appearance that of one who has searched for the leak in life's gaspipe with a lighted candle.
I Like Pg WodehouseIt was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A.B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.
I Like Pg WodehouseIt was the look that caused her to be known in native bearer and halfcaste circles as 'Mgobi-'Mgumbi which may be loosely translated as She On Whom It Is Unsafe To Try Any Oompus-Boompus.
I Like Pg WodehouseIt would be too much to say that Lady Constance snorted. Women of her upbringing do not snort.
I Like Pg Wodehouse"Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle...See More »
I Like Pg Wodehouse"A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard."
I Like Pg WodehouseLike so many substantial Americans, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps, leaping from crag to crag.