G. Wodehouse
G. Wodehouse
aunt thinking meditation
You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)
cousin uncles aunt
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.
tree old-friends roof
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
bricks within-reach trusted
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
uncles medicine discovery
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
wave bark stout
I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
glasses giving whiskers
The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.
swimming men clothes
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
golf men games
Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.
grief golf games
I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?
optimistic trying sides
So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.
lobster looks
He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.
misunderstanding
Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.
normal lambs strikes
In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I’ve known him to do it’ ‘Do what?’ ‘Not strike lambs