Golf...is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and plays his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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WODEHOUSE It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb tr... P.G. WODEHOUSE A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last n... P.G. WODEHOUSE Morning, Bill,' said Lord Tidmouth agreeably. 'Go to hell!' said Bill. 'Right-... P.G. WODEHOUSE The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs... P.G. WODEHOUSE -'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do no... P.G. WODEHOUSE This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literatu... P.G. WODEHOUSE He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence les... P.G. WODEHOUSE It is the bungled crime that brings remorse. P.G. WODEHOUSE The coops were finished. They were not masterpieces, and I have seen chickens pause before them in d... P.G. WODEHOUSE All nice girls sketch a little. P.G. WODEHOUSE Have you ever seen a man, woman, or child who wasn’t eating an egg or just going to eat an egg or ... P.G. WODEHOUSE I went into the kitchen ten minutes back. The cat was sitting on the mat." Beale's narra... P.G. WODEHOUSE He's such a dear, Mr. Garnet. A beautiful, pure, bred Persian. He has taken prizes." "He's alwa... P.G. WODEHOUSE I was in that painful condition which occurs when one has lost one's first wind and has not yet got ... P.G. WODEHOUSE Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going. P.G. WODEHOUSE The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide. P.G. WODEHOUSE It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and th... P.G. WODEHOUSE There are situations in life which are beyond one. The sensible man realizes this, and slides out of... P.G. WODEHOUSE Man's inability to get out of bed in the morning is a curious thing. One may reason with oneself cle... P.G. WODEHOUSE Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the s... P.G. WODEHOUSE Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a ho... P.G. WODEHOUSE Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing f... P.G. WODEHOUSE I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers." "I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said. "Th... P.G. WODEHOUSE Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous. P.G. WODEHOUSE [A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothin... P.G. WODEHOUSE The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what ha... P.G. WODEHOUSE Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had cr... P.G. WODEHOUSE It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to b... P.G. WODEHOUSE I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at th... P.G. WODEHOUSE