13 P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on Metaphor

P. G. Wodehouse quotes on metaphor

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.'

33. He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.

81. Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.

85. If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.

104. I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

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

123. 'I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.'

129. The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower-bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

134. Aunt Agatha is like an elephant-not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.

154. I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.

171. I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.

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.

193. ...his head emerged cautiously, like a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.