It’s curious how, when you’re in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of ’what-ho!’s.
Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author’s life.
One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
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.
It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.
She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.
I expect I shall feel better after tea.
As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
The stationmaster’s whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.
He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
Mere abuse is no criticism.
I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.
You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.