“No, I am quite content with you, Bertie. By the way, I do dislike that name Bertie. I think I shall call you Harold. Yes, I am perfectly satisfied with you. You have many faults, of course. I shall be pointing some of them out when I am at leisure.”
Category: Something Wise
November 28
“She laughed – a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.”
November 27
“Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts. George’s mouth had all the exclusiveness of a fashionable club. His breast stroke was a thing to see and wonder at. When he did the crawl, strong men gasped. When he swam on his back, you felt that that was the only possible method of progression.”
November 26
“He sat looking at it with his eyes protruding in the manner popularized by snails, looking like something stuffed by a taxidermist who had learned his job from a correspondence course and had only got as far as lesson three.”
November 25
“Aunt Agatha’s demeanor now was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.”
Wodehouse 24
“She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.”
Wodehouse 23
Lord Marshmoreton: “I wish I could get you see my point of view.”
George Bevan: “I do see your point of view. But dimly. You see, my own takes up such a lot of the foreground”
Wodehouse 22
“A depressing musty scent pervaded the place, as if a cheese had recently died there in painful circumstances.”
Wodehouse 21
“I don’t know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they’re only studying for it, always appear to run to surplus poundage.”
Wodehouse 20
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.