A chap who's supposed to stop chaps pinching things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.
Hoping that this was some jolly practical joke and that the real chap would shortly jump out from behind a chair and say Boo!
Moment blighted Harold discovered that training meant knocking off pastry, taking exercise, and keeping away from the cigarettes, he was all against it, and it was only by unceasing vigilance that we...
Of the afternoon Mr. Fitz-Wattle
Peculiarity of golf, as of love, that it temporarily changes the natures of its victims;
You can’t start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won’t come and ask you to until you’ve painted a lot first. This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie.
I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.
Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew over. A dashed pretty and lively and attractive girl, mind you, but full of ideal...
I could still see that Pauline was one of the most beautiful girls I had ever met, but of the ancient fire which had caused me to bung my heart at her feet that night at the Plaza there remained not a...
Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?
Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the hum...
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably by...
A fellow told me one about Wembley yesterday, I said, to help on the cheery flow of conversation. Stop me if you've heard it before. Chap goes up to deaf chap outside the exhibition and says, Is this...
A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
A hoarse shout from within and a small china ornament whizzing past my head informed me that my old friend was at home.
A left jab from him had all the majesty of a formal declaration of war.
A little, panted Mrs. Peagrim, who, though she danced often and vigorously, was never in the best of condition, owing to her habit of neutralizing the beneficent effects of exercise by surreptitious c...
About two hours afterwards Gethryn discovered a suitable retort, but, coming to the conclusion that better late than never does not apply to repartees, refrained from speaking it.
Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself.
Are you the Bully, the Pride of the School , or the Boy who is Led Astray and takes to Drink in Chapter Sixteen? The last, for choice, said Mike, but I've only just arrived, so I don't know.
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