P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBEwas an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth15 October 1881
feel-better tea feels
I expect I shall feel better after tea.
dinner cyanide forgotten
He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.
punishment mirrors glutton-for-punishment
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
strong passion aunt
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.
tombstone simple men
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.
feelings bed sometimes
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.
lasts facts degrees
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
rooms jeeves watches
One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.
body next failing
One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.
long succession just-one
That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.
wind rushing gowns
I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.
jeeves disgruntled ifs
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
world looks providence
Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it.
affair crisis situation
You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.