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.
Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth, I remember Jeeves saying once, it is to have a thankless child, and it isn't a dashed sight better having a thankless aunt.
How often in this life a mere accident may shape our whole future!
His manner had the offensive jauntiness of the man who has had a cold bath when he might just as easily have had a hot one.
Henry lived in a boarding-house in Guildford Street.
Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.
Hear him now as he toils. He has a long garden-implement in his hand, and he is sending up the death-rate in slug circles with a devastating rapidity. Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay Ta-r...
He was as completely happy as only a fluffy-minded old man with excellent health and a large income can be.
He must be provided with a claque. It will be your task, Jeeves,
He lit another cigar, and began to brood over the folly of mankind.
He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition
He had reached that condition of mind which the old Vikings used to call Berserk and which among modern Malays is termed running amok.
Have you lost the girl you love?’ ‘That’s what I’m trying to figure out. I can’t make up my mind. It all depends what construction you place on the words I never want to see or speak to you again in t...
But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain.
But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is. Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir. He’s supposed to be one of the best men in London. I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.
Brainy badinage of that sort is exchanged every day in the best society. You should hear dukes and earls! The wit! the esprit! The flow of soul!
Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.
Billie knew all. And, terrible though the fact is as an indictment of the male sex, when a woman knows all, there is invariably trouble ahead for some man.
A hoarse shout from within and a small china ornament whizzing past my head informed me that my old friend was at home.