16 P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on Description

P. G. Wodehouse quotes on description

28. Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.

40. Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.

45. The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say `When!'

47. She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

59. The female in question was a sloppy pest

73. In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.

89. 'The fellow with a face rather like a walnut.'

94. 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.

105. It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill.

112. [of Spode] He was, as I had already been able to perceive, a breath-taking cove. About seven feet in height, and swathed in a plaid ulster which made him look about six feet across, he caught the eye and arrested it. It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla and had changed its mind at the last moment.

139. He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.

142. There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

146. The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

180. As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.

197. 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.

198. The Duke's moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide.