One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she wishes to tell him that he is an idiot and ought to have his head examined, she can do so and, going further, can add that it is a thousand pities that no-one ever thought of smothering him with a pillow in his formative years.
P.G. WodehouseShe gave the impression of smiling with difficulty, possibly for fear of getting wrinkles.
P.G. WodehouseHe sat looking at it with his eyes protruding in the manner popularized by snails, looking like something stuffed by a taxidermist who had learned his job from a correspondence course and had only got as far as lesson three.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: snails bingo-little taxidermist
To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
P.G. WodehouseHe looked like a vulture dissatisfied with its breakfast corpse.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: breakfast vulture
He is England's premier fiend in human shape.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: humorous-quotations
I don't know why it is, but I've never been able to bear with fortitude anything in the shape of a kid with golden curls. Confronted with one, I feel the urge to step on him or drop things on him from a height.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: humor
It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
P.G. WodehouseThe storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: contentment
I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: comedy detectives
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