He looked like a Dictator on the point of starting a purge.
P.G. WodehouseTag: dictator
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.
P.G. WodehouseTag: hangovers
I did pick up a few tolerably ripe and breezy expressions out in France. All through my military career there was something about me - some subtle magnetism, don't you know, and that sort of thing - that seemed to make Colonels and blighters of that sort rather inventive. I sort of inspired them, don't you know.
P.G. WodehouseBeginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor
I sank into a chair and mopped the frontal bone. Not for many a long day had I been in such a doodah
P.G. WodehouseIt is not too much to say I was piqued to the tonsils.
P.G. WodehouseIf England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.
P.G. WodehouseTag: aristocracy
Lord Chesterfield said that since he had had the full use of his reason nobody had heard him laugh. I don't suppose you have read Lord Chesterfield's 'Letters To His Son'?
...Well, of course I hadn't. Bertram Wooster does not read other people's letters. If I were employed in the post office I wouldn't even read the postcards.
I paused, partly for breath, and partly because I felt I had said enough. I stood there, waiting for her reply, wishing I had a throat lozenge to suck.
P.G. WodehouseThe spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
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