

“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
― Very Good, Jeeves!
― Very Good, Jeeves!

“Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?”
― Mike and Psmith
― Mike and Psmith

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
― The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
― The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology

“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
― Uneasy Money
― Uneasy Money
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