5 P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on Hyperbole

P. G. Wodehouse quotes on hyperbole

31. 'Alf Todd,' said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, 'has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat's ear with a red-hot needle.'

52. He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

111. Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

187. She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.

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.