It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.
P.G. WodehouseAs Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: humor shakespeare
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: love relationships
I tried to utter, but could not. The tongue had got all tangled up with the uvula, and the brain seemed paralyzed. I was feeling the same stunned feeling which, I imagine, Chichester Clam must have felt as the door of the potting shed slammed and he heard Boko starting to yodel without -- a nightmare sensation of being but a helpless pawn in the hands of Fate.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: humor
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: humor
I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.
P.G. WodehouseHalf a league
Half a league
Half a league onward
With a hey-nonny-nonny
And a hot cha-cha.
Stichwörter: traveling
Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.
P.G. WodehouseHe couldn’t have moved quicker if he had been the dachshund Poppet, who at this juncture was running round in circles, trying, if I read his thoughts aright, to work off the rather heavy lunch he had had earlier in the afternoon.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: dachshund
Apparently that dog of hers joined you in the water.”
Yes, that’s right, he took his dip with the rest of us. But what’s that got to do with it?”
Wilbert Cream dived in and saved him.”
He could have got ashore perfectly well under his own steam. In fact, he was already on his way, doing what looked like an Australian crawl.”
That wouldn’t occur to a pinhead like Phyllis. To her Wilbert Cream is the man who rescued her dachshund from a watery grave. So she’s going to marry him.”
But you don’t marry fellows because they rescue dachshunds.”
You do, if you’ve got a mentality like hers.
Stichwörter: dachshund
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