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My favourite single Wodehouse sentence, on the subject of Psmith's sudden realisation: "For there was no doubt in his mind that in a world congested to overflo
by zinckiwi 9y ago
My favourite single Wodehouse sentence, on the subject of Psmith's sudden realisation:
"For there was no doubt in his mind that in a world congested to overflowing with girls Eve Halliday stood entirely alone."
- cafard 9y ago"The saddest words of tongue or pen are not 'It might have been', they are "joint checking account'." (One of the Uncle Fred novels, read long ago.)
- switch007 9y agoI quite like this (extremely accurate) opening: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.” – The Luck of the Bodkins