G. Wodehouse
G. Wodehouse
memories food humorous
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
life mean reality
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
funny humor tunnels
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
uncles medicine discovery
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
bricks within-reach trusted
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
events opinion thickness
In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
powerful meaning-well looks
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.
men medicine trying
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
taken brain too-much
I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.
thinking vests asbestos
Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!
jeeves dignity quiet
We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.
wind jelly
Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.
morning feelings form
I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra la la' as I did the lathering for I was feeling in mid season form this morning.
writing dark men
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.