[PGW Quotes] first installment...

Came across a few of my favorite PGW quotes...

" It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. "

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun"

"The shock to Colonel Wedge of finding that what he had taken for a pile of old clothes was alive and a relation by marriage caused him to speak a little sharply."

"He had a face like a gorilla. More so indeed, than most gorillas do."

"it was as if nature had intended to make a gorilla and had changed her mind at the last moment"

"his IQ is about thirty points lower than what you’d expect from a not-too-agile-minded jellyfish"

"He uttered a sound much like a bull dog swallowing a pork chop whose dimensions it has underestimated."

"It was the look which caused her to be known in native bearer and halfcaste circles as 'Mgobi-'Mgumbi, which may be loosely translated as She On Whom It Is Unsafe To Try Any Oompus-Boompus."

"Sir Roderick Glossop ... is always called a nerve specialist, because it sounds better, but everybody knows that he's really a sort of janitor to the looney-bin."

"His locality at this moment is as difficult to ascertain as that of a black cat hiding in a coal cellar on a moonless night"

"He was built on large lines, and seemed to fill the room to overflowing. In physique he was not unlike what Primo Carnera would have been if Carnera hadn't stunted his growth by smoking cigarettes when a boy."

"Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons."

"Honoria . . . is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welter-weight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge."

"Fond as he was of Pongo, Lord Ickenham could not see him as a breaker of hearts. Yet it appeared plain that his loss had left a large gap in this girl's life."

"After all, golf is only a game,'' said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they're saying.