He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.
P.G. WodehouseTag: dancing awkwardness
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor writing humanity mission pg-wodehouse
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
P.G. WodehouseTag: literature p-g-wodehouse
It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.
P.G. WodehouseTag: iron-will
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor marriage blondes trophy-wives
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
P.G. WodehouseThe drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
P.G. WodehouseUnseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor fate unfairness misfortune cheating top-8
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
P.G. WodehouseWell, the fact is," said Celia, in a burst of girlish frankness, "I
rather think I've killed George."
Killed him, eh?"
It was a solution that had not occurred to me, but now that it was
presented for my inspection I could see its merits. In these days of
national effort, when we are all working together to try to make our
beloved land fit for heroes to live in, it was astonishing that nobody
before had thought of a simple, obvious thing like killing George
Mackintosh. George Mackintosh was undoubtedly better dead, but it had
taken a woman's intuition to see it.
I killed him with my niblick," said Celia.
I nodded. If the thing was to be done at all, it was unquestionably a
niblick shot.
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