It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor doubt shakespeare hesitation hamlet jeeves
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor intelligence people stupidity classic-insult
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P.G. WodehouseAs for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor death depression undertakers
I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor life existentialism pondering
Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
P.G. WodehouseTags: golf
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor melancholy wit depression
There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor french old-age grey-hair guillotine
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
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