Showing posts with label PG Wodehouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PG Wodehouse. Show all posts

Friday, 27 March 2020

A GAMBLING 'CURATE'

'...he looked like a sheep with a secret sorrow.'
PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves in Life with Jeeves, p.31. 

Sunday, 3 October 2010

THE OLD SCHOOL TIE

'Well, you know how it is when you're in some public spot and a stranger comes in wearing the old school tie. You shove a hasty hand over your own and start to sidle out before the chap can spot it and grab you and start gassing.'
PG Wodehouse, Young Men in Spats, p.37.

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

ALOOF SMILES

'He assures me that is was merely one of those aloof smiles which the Honorary Secretary of a Bible Class would have given the elderly aunt of a promising pupil...'
PG Wodehouse, Young Men in Spats, p.24.

UGLINESS

'But this girl before him was not pretty. She was distinctly plain. Even ugly. She looked as if she might be a stenographer selected for some business magnate by his wife out of a number of applicants.'
PG Wodehouse, Young Men in Spats, p.14.

Thursday, 26 March 2009

CAREERS

'I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon.'
PG Wodehouse, 'The Great Sermon Handicap' in The Inimitable Jeeves, p.99.

Saturday, 19 July 2008

RED HAIR

'He gnashed a teeth or two. He was a red-headed chap, and my experience of the red-headed is that you can always expect high blood pressure from them in times of stress. The first Queen Elizabeth had red hair, and look what she did to Mary Queen of Scots.'
PG Wodehouse, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, p.8.