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P.G. Wodehouse
I thought it was fine.' 'How sympathetic you are!' cooed George, glutinously, edging a little closer. 'Do you know--' 'Shall
P.G. Wodehouse
He lit another cigar, and began to brood over the folly of mankind.
P.G. Wodehouse
Here, you! The boss wants you. Buck up!' Mr Stafford was talking into the telephone. He replaced the receiver asHenry entered. 'Oh, Rice, here's a woman wants her husband shadowed while he's on the road. He's an actor. I'm sending you. Go to this address, and get photographs and all particulars. You'll have to catch the eleven o'clock train on Friday.' 'Yes, sir.' 'He's in The Girl
P.G. Wodehouse
He proposed to Alice Weston. She refused him. 'It's not because I'm not fond of you. I think you're the nicest man I ever met.' A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections. He had worked patiently and well before actually putting his fortune to the test. 'I'd marry you tomorrow if things were different. But I'm on the stage, and I mean to stick there. Most of the girls want to get off it, but not me. And one thing I'll never do is marry someone who isn't in the profession. My sister Genevieve did, and look what happened to her. She married a commercial traveller, and take it from me he travelled.
P.G. Wodehouse
Cold is the ogre that drives all beautiful things into hiding
P.G. Wodehouse
You see, the catch about portrait-painting-I've looked into the thing a bit-is that you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first.
P.G. Wodehouse
Brainy badinage of that sort is exchanged every day in the best society. You should hear dukes and earls! The wit! the esprit! The flow of soul!
P.G. Wodehouse
I see. Before you fell a victim to the feverish desire for reckless speculation which is so marked a characteristic of the American business man, what?
P.G. Wodehouse
As Nebuchadnezzar is reported to have said of his vegetarian diet, it may have been wholesome, but it was not good.
P.G. Wodehouse
By the way, one generally shakes hands in the smartest circles. Yours seem to be down there somewhere. Might I trouble you? Right. Got it? Thanks!
P.G. Wodehouse
I knew what it felt like. I was once in love myself with a girl called Elizabeth Shoolbred, and the fact that she couldn't stand me at any price will be recorded in my autobiography.
P.G. Wodehouse
A man who forgets what day he was married, when he's been married one year, will forget, at about the end of the fourth, that he's married at all.
P.G. Wodehouse
I say," said Jimmy, as they moved away, "who is that fellow Wesson?" "Oh, a man," said Molly vaguely. "There's no need to be fulsome," said Jimmy. "He can't hear.
P.G. Wodehouse
We are going to do a play, and we want another man. The man who was going to play one of the parts has had to go back to London." "Poor devil! Fancy having to leave a place like this and go back to that dingy, overrated town.
P.G. Wodehouse
In the past she had been compelled to describe this man as a hunk of cheese and to express the opinion that his crookedness was such as to enable him to hide at will behind a spiral staircase; but now, in the joy of this unexpected reunion, all these harsh views were forgotten.
P.G. Wodehouse
Especially if the girl he had earmarked was one of these tough modern thugs, all lipstick and cool, hard, sardonic eyes, as she probably was.
P.G. Wodehouse
In this life, you can choose between two courses. You can either shut yourself up in a country house and stare into tanks, or you can be a dasher with the sex. You can't do both.
P.G. Wodehouse
A left jab from him had all the majesty of a formal declaration of war.
P.G. Wodehouse
XVIII. THE LOCHINVAR METHOD XIX. ON THE LAKE XX. A LESSON IN PICQUET
Tim Page
friends and I used to play an invented parlor game called the Worst Records Never Made. The point was to hypothesize the most stunningly inappropriate albums we could imagine-pairings of artists and material so horrific that even the famously dunderheaded major labels would hardly consider making them. Most of our inspirations have been lost to memory, but the notion of discs like Yodel with the Berlin Philharmonic, The Three Tenors Sing Gilbert and Sullivan, and-my favorite-The Chipmunks Present Your Favorite Spirituals can still inspire what P. G. Wodehouse used to call the raised eyebrow
P.G. Wodehouse
Spode, also, seemed a good deal
P.G. Wodehouse
It's the burglars!" quavered Mrs. Hignett. In the stress of recentevents she had completely forgotten the existence of those enemiesof society. "They were dancing in the hall when I arrived, and nowthey're playing the orchestrion!
P.G. Wodehouse
He looked like a horse with a secret sorrow. He coughed three times, like a horse who, in addition to a secret sorrow, had contracted asthma.
P.G. Wodehouse
Then they appeared to ooze off, for all became quiet save for the lapping of the waves on the shore. And, by Jove, so sedulously did these waves lap that gradually a drowsiness crept over me and not ten minutes after I had made up my mind that I should never get to sleep again in this world I was off as comfortably as a babe or suckling.
P.G. Wodehouse
Get married, P.K. Purvis," said Gussie earnestly. "It's the only life ...
P.G. Wodehouse
You know how it is. Love's flame flickers and dies, reason returns to her throne, and you aren't nearly as ready to hop about and jump through hoops as in the first pristine glow of the divine passion.
P.G. Wodehouse
I say! he said. Are you broke?Nelly laughed
P.G. Wodehouse
You see I'm wearing the tie,' said Bingo. 'It suits you beautiful,' said the girl. Personally, if anyone had told me that a tie like that suited me, I should have risen and struck them on the mazzard, regardless of their age and sex; but poor old Bingo simply got all flustered with gratification, and smirked in the most gruesome manner. 'Well
P.G. Wodehouse
Dear old Bicky, though a stout fellow and absolutely unrivaled as an imitator of bull-terriers and cats, was in many ways one of the most pronounced fatheads that ever pulled on a suit of gent's underwear.
P.G. Wodehouse
England is a jolly sight too small for anyone to live in with Aunt Agatha, if she's really on the warpath.
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