Lady Underhill, having said all she had to say, recovered her breath and began to say it again. Frequent iteration was one of her strongest weapons. As her brother Edwin, who was fond of homely imager...
Když žena ví vše, pak pravidelně čekají nějakého muže maléry.
It’s one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor—and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that. ‘It’s no good trying to get Bertie to take the slightest in...
It would seem to be an inexorable law of Nature that no man shall shine at both ends. If he has a high forehead and a thirst for wisdom, his fox-trotting (if any) shall be as the staggerings of the dr...
It may work, Jeeves. It is, at least, worth trying. I shall now leave you, to prepare myself for the ordeal before me with silent meditation.’ ‘Your tea will be here in a moment, sir.’ ‘No, Jeeves. Th...
It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.
I've found, as a general rule of life, that the things you think are going to be the scaliest nearly always turn out not so bad after all.
I was in that painful condition which occurs when one has lost one's first wind and has not yet got one's second.
I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling--and I think correctly--that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be one damn thing after another.
I see. Before you fell a victim to the feverish desire for reckless speculation which is so marked a characteristic of the American business man, what?
Hypatia, like all girls who intend to be good wives, made it a practice to look on any suggestions thrown out by her future lord and master as fatuous and futile.
How long Archibald slept he could not have said. He woke some hours later with a vague feeling that a thunderstorm of unusual violence had broken out in his immediate neighborhood. But this, he realiz...
He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
Gussie opened his vaudeville career
I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.
She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations.
Mac had many admirable qualities, but not tact. He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow.
Orchestrion
You can't expect an empty aunt to beam like a full aunt.
Why has the car stopped?Ah! I said with manly frankness that became me well. There you have me.You see, I'm one of those birds who drive a lot but don't know the first thing about the works. The polic...