We Woosters can bite the bullet.
P.G. WodehouseTag: p-g-wodehouse just-enough-jeeves
The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.
P.G. WodehouseI expect I shall feel better after tea.
P.G. WodehouseMore and more clearly as the scones disappeared into his interior he saw that what the sensible man wanted was a wife and a home with scones like these always at his diposal.
P.G. WodehouseAlf Todd," said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, "has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.
P.G. WodehouseTag: brillliant
Osbert Mulliner was simply unequal to the task of tackling cavemen.
P.G. WodehouseAunts Aren't Gentlemen
P.G. WodehouseOne of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth,
P.G. WodehouseTag: hot-water
Mr. Carlisle became brisk. "Baby," he said, as Napoleon might have said to one of his Marshals when instructing him in his latest plan of campaign . . .
P.G. WodehouseTag: hot-water
If you are ignorant of Lora Delane Porter’s books that is your affair. Perhaps you are more to be pitied than censured. Nature probably gave you the wrong shape of forehead. Mrs. Porter herself would have put it down to some atavistic tendency or pre-natal influence. She put most things down to that. She blamed nearly all the defects of the modern world, from weak intellects to in-growing toe-nails, on long-dead ladies and gentlemen who, safe in the family vault, imagined that they had established their alibi. She subpoenaed grandfathers and even great-grandfathers to give evidence to show that the reason Twentieth-Century Willie squinted or had to spend his winters in Arizona was their own shocking health ‘way back in the days beyond recall.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
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