G. Wodehouse
G. Wodehouse
golf tests golfers
The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
marriage process prolonging
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
snow way dukes
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
speed bigs slabs
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
sheep sailing jeeves
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
gentleman endless conversation
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
lunch prometheus dropping
He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
roots impact moustache
A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.
tombstone simple men
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.
cousin animal air
He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.
pockets world want
That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.
voice feelings certain
While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
sunshine rays scottish
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
punishment mirrors glutton-for-punishment
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.