147 quotes
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.
Summer Moonshine (1938)
"What I want to know is what a fellow does when he plays golf. Tell me in as few words as you can just what it's all about."
--"You hit a ball with a stick until it falls into a hole."
The Clicking Of Cuthbert (1922)
I suppose this was really the moment for embarking upon an impassioned defence of Boko, stressing his admirable qualities. Not being able to think of any, however, I remained silent.
Joy in the Morning (1947)
For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look like birds, when they could pass as vultures and no questions asked.
Pigs Have Wings (1952)
She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.
----
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
...his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever.
Psmith, Journalist (1915)
Stiffy was one of those girls who enjoy in equal quantities the gall of an army mule and the calm insouciance of a fish on a slab of ice.
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
The female in question was a sloppy pest
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
He had that self-reproachful feeling of having been remiss which comes to Generals who wake up one morning to discover that they have carelessly allowed themselves to be outflanked.
Cocktail Time (1958)
‘Don't you like this hat?‘
‘No, sir.‘
‘Well, I do,‘ I replied rather cleverly, and went out with it tilted just that merest shade over the left eye which makes all the difference.
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew.
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
Even at normal times Aunt Dahlia's map tended a little towards the crushed strawberry. But never had I seen it take on so pronounced a richness as now. She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.
The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)
He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!’
Young Men in Spats (1936)
Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
The Heart of a Goof (1926)
I goggled. Her words did not appear to make sense. They seemed the mere aimless vapouring of an aunt who has been sitting out in the sun without a hat.
----
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower-bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)