On: Frivolous, Empty, and Perfectly Delightful

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My favourite single Wodehouse sentence, on the subject of Psmith's sudden realisation:

"For there was no doubt in his mind that in a world congested to overflowing with girls Eve Halliday stood entirely alone."

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"The saddest words of tongue or pen are not 'It might have been', they are "joint checking account'."

(One of the Uncle Fred novels, read long ago.)

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I quite like this (extremely accurate) opening:

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”

– The Luck of the Bodkins