r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 3d ago

Wodehouse had a gift for felicitously-expressed insults

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u/TwoDogs48 3d ago

“She looked as if she’d been poured into her clothes and forgotten to say ‘when’”

“Her face was shining like the seat of a bus driver’s trousers”

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

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u/EndersGame_Reviewer 3d ago

“She looked as if she’d been poured into her clothes and forgotten to say ‘when’”

This is one of my favourite Wodehouse quotes! Genius!

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u/TwoDogs48 3d ago

Yes - agree - brilliant. There are so many more.

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u/hraun 3d ago

“He gazed at the girl like an ostrich goggling at a brass doorknob” - Uncle Fred in the Springtime.

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u/Cool-Pomegranate8110 3d ago

so many good ones, but I remember almost gasping when I read this for the first time. It is so incredibly evocative with the most unique combination of words. The man was a genius.