“Many a time in the past, when an active operator on Wall Street, he had done things...which would have caused raised eyebrows on the fo'c'sle of a pirate sloop - and done them without a blush.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“A moment before this voice spoke, Lord Emsworth had been smirking. He now congealed, and the smile passed from his lips like breath off a razor, to be succeeded be a tense look of anxiety and alarm.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book. He stooped… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you suffer in the same way, but with me the act of talking in the nature of real mashed potatoes… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He seemed a little uneasy, and he welcomed me with something of the gratitude of the shipwrecked mariner who sights a sail.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiar thing in life that the people you most particularly want to edge away from always seem to cluster round like… — p g wodehouse Copy Share Image
“She had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I gave it up. The man annoyed me. I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie, but… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
