Tuppy wiped a fair portion of Hampshire out of his eye, and peered round him in a dazed kind of way...
P.G. WodehouseNothing to be done about it except give her a reproachful look. I did this. It made no impression whatever, and she proceeded.
P.G. WodehouseShe uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.
P.G. WodehouseYou can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both.
P.G. WodehouseTags: dictators
Presently, I was aware that Jeeves was with me. I hadn't heard him come in, but you often don't with Jeeves. He just streams silently from spot A to spot B, like some gas.
P.G. Wodehouse...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.
P.G. WodehouseTags: smoking
She is a waitress at his lordships club.
My God! The Proletariat!
The lower middle classes, sir.
Well, yes, by stretching it a bit, perhaps.
The cells smell is a great feature of French prisons. Ours in No.44 was one of those fine broad-shouldered up and coming young smells, which stand on both feet and look the world in the eye. We became very fond and proud of it.
P.G. WodehouseTags: prison
Roderick Spode is the founder of the Saviours of Britain, a fascist organisation better know as the 'Black Shorts'...
When you say 'shorts' mean 'shirts', of course.
No. By the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts.
Footer bags, you mean?
Yes.
How perfectly foul.
Tags: fascists
I turned round and Jeeves shied like a startled mustang.
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