Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it.
P.G. WodehouseTag: bertie-wooster
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.'
Yes, sir?'
Is it really a frost?'
A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.'
But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.'
Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.'
He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.'
I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.
You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu?
Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.
Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.
P.G. WodehouseJeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit."
"Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor sorrow satire disappointment moroseness tolstoy russia
I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra la la' as I did the lathering for I was feeling in mid season form this morning.
P.G. WodehouseMike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor misfortune sombre-mood
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
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