I will be your wife, Bertie.’ There didn’t seem much to say to this except ‘Oh, thanks.
I want to see the manager. Is there anything I could do, sir? Archie looked at him doubtfully. Well, as a matter of fact, my dear old desk-clerk, he said, I want to kick up a fearful row, and it hardl...
I say, said Jimmy, as they moved away, who is that fellow Wesson? Oh, a man, said Molly vaguely. There's no need to be fulsome, said Jimmy. He can't hear.
I had forgotten you were a bird-watcher till you reminded me just now. You went in for it at Oxford, I remember. It isn’t a thing I would care to do myself. Not, I hastened to add, that I’ve anything...
I found Lord Emsworth, Lady Constance, and told him the car was in readiness.’ ‘Oh, thank you, Miss Briggs. Where was he?’ ‘Down at the sty. Would there be anything furthah?’ ‘No thank you, Miss Brigg...
I don’t mind people talking rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot.
I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well,...
I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'In...
I can’t stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French
I appear inadvertently to have caused much trouble, sir.Jeeves! I said.Sir?How much money is there on the dressing-table?In addition to the ten-pound note which you instructed me to take, sir, there a...
How does he look, Jeeves?Sir?What does Mr Bassington-Bassington look like?It is hardly my place, sir, to criticize the facial peculiarities of your friends.
Himself strongly in favour of sharing the wealth, it seemed to him that the last thing to place in the hands of an impressionable child was a little wee passbook, starting it off in life—as it infalli...
He's quite a bit of a snob, you know, and when he hears I'm going to marry the daughter of an earl - I say, old man, I couldn't help saying, aren't you looking ahead rather far?Oh, that's all right. I...
He's like one of those weird chappies in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got...
He was like some prophet of old, scourging the sins of the people. He leaped about in a frenzy of inspiration till I feared he would do himself an injury. Sometimes he expressed himself in a somewhat...
He put the good old cup of tea softly on the table by my bed, and I took a refreshing sip. Just right, as usual. Not too hot, not too sweet, not to weak, not too strong, not too much milk, and not a d...
Have you ever been turned down by a girl who afterwards married and then been introduced to her husband? If so you'll understand how I felt when Clarence burst on me. You know the feeling. First of al...
Gussie and I, as I say, had rather lost touch, but all the same I was exercised about the poor fish, as I am about all my pals, close or distant, who find themselves treading upon Life's banana skins.
Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don’t know?’ ‘I couldn’t say, sir.
Experience, dearly bought in the days of his residence at the University, had taught him that when the Law gripped you with its talons the only thing to do was to give a false name, say nothing and ho...