Your aunt is the dearest woman in the world, and nobody could be fonder of her than I am, but I sometimes find her presence … what is the word I want … restrictive. She holds, as you know, peculiar vi...
Jack: We were in danger. We shall probably get pneumonia.Mary: Isch!There! You’re sneezing already.I am not sneezing. That was an exclamation of disgust.It sounded like a sneeze. It must have been, fo...
You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.
You won't mind my calling you Comrade, will you? I've just become a socialist. It's a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the equal distribution of property, and start by collaring all you...
Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit.Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.
The boy is of an outspoken disposition, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my personal appearance.What did he say about your appearance?I have forgotten, sir, said Jeeves, with a touch of a...
Jeeves—my man, you know—is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn't know what to do without him.
I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.
Gussie opened his vaudeville career
Blandings Castle is not for the weak.
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
I am Psmith, said the old Etonian reverently. There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.
Come on, he said. Bring the poker.I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it.
Life, said Wesson, who had had time for reflection, is a house which we all burgle. We enter it uninvited, take all that we can lay hands on, and go out again.
A man thinks he is being chilled steel – or adamant, if you prefer the expression – and suddenly the mists clear away and he finds that he has allowed a girl to talk him into something frightful. Sams...
You can’t tell me if there are any special subjects to avoid when talking to him, can you?’ ‘Special subjects?’ ‘Well, you know how it is with a stranger. You say it’s a fine day, and he goes all whit...
Sir Roderick Glossop, Honoria’s father, is always called a nerve specialist, because it sounds better, but everybody knows that he’s a sort of janitor to the looney-bin. I mean to say, when your uncle...
I call it rotten work, springing unexpected offspring on a fellow at the eleventh hour like this.
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and Joy is king of everything, when Cynthia smiles. He coughed, changin...
One of the many things Mike could never understand in Psmith was his fondness for getting into atmospheres that were not his own. He would go out of his way to do this. Mike, like most boys of his age...
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