It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.
He keeps looking at me so oddly.Oddly? How? Give me an imitation.
It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.
Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.
Yes, Jeeves?The man had materialized on the carpet. Absolutely noiseless, as usual.A note for you, sir.A note for me, Jeeves?A note for you, sir.From whom, Jeeves?From Miss Bassett, sir.From whom, Jee...
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter
His spirit was willing, but his will was not spirited.
Man's inability to get out of bed in the morning is a curious thing. One may reason with oneself clearly and forcibly without the slightest effect. One knows that delay means inconvenience. Perhaps it...
What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking.
Morning, Bill,' said Lord Tidmouth agreeably.
She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.
I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of t...
The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.
The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.
Employers are like horses — they require management.
Bertie, do you read Tennyson?Not if I can help.
Morning, Bill,' said Lord Tidmouth agreeably.'Go to hell!' said Bill.'Right-ho,' said his lordship.
One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has sl...
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.