“She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.” The

“She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.” There's also the litmus test of the Wodehouse phrase: "The unpleasant, acrid smell of burnt poetry." Quotes filched, after a short search, from http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7963.P_G_Wodehouse http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7963.P_G_Wodehouse , which holds some pages of good ones. Unfortunately, a few are poorly sourced and look like cuckoo eggs to me.