Uncle Fred in the Springtime Quotes

“A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

“Don't blame me, Pongo,' said Lord Ickenham, 'if Lady Constance takes her lorgnette to you. God bless my soul, though, you can't compare the lorgnettes of to-day with the ones I used to know as a boy. I remember walking one day in Grosvenor Square with my aunt Brenda and her pug dog Jabberwocky, and a policeman came up and said the latter ought to be wearing a muzzle. My aunt made no verbal reply. She merely whipped her lorgnette from its holster and looked at the man, who gave one choking gasp and fell back against the railings, without a mark on him but with an awful look of horror in his staring eyes, as if he had seen some dreadful sight. A doctor was sent for, and they managed to bring him round, but he was never the same again. He had to leave the Force, and eventually drifted into the grocery business. And that is how Sir Thomas Lipton got his start.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

“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.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

“The question of the rightness or wrongness of Potts appeared to be one on which he was loth to set himself up as an authority.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred In The Springtime

“Shakespeare describes the poet’s eye as rolling in a fine frenzy from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, and giving to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, but in practice you will find that one corner of that eye is generally glued on the royalty returns.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred In The Springtime