At a time when she was engaged to Stilton Cheesewright, I remember recording in the archives that she was tall and willowy with a terrific profile and luxuriant platinum blond-hair, the sort of girl who might, as far as looks were concerned, have been the star unit of the harem of one of the better-class sultans.
P.G. WodehouseTag: woman looks beautiful harem
I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
Angela nearly got inhaled by a shark while aquaplaning.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
Bream Mortimer was tall and thin. He had small bright eyes and a sharply curving nose. He looked much more like a parrot than most parrots do. It gave strangers a momentary shock of surprise when they saw Bream Mortimer in restaurants, eating roast beef. They had the feeling that he would have preferred sunflower seeds.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never been able to understand anyone wanting to do. Though I suppose, if you face it squarely, they're no worse than spinach.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.
P.G. Wodehouse...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor writing ink handwriting
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