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P.G. Wodehouse

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MALLORY ORTBERG He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice,...
SARAH J. MAAS He had a presence about him. Very quiet, but he had a powerful voice when he wanted to use it.
DUANE THOMAS I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and '...
BILL BRYSON No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu...
JAMES BLAYLOCK Just when he knew he would walk into the sun without hesitation, he had been sent an angel. A slow s...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN He just said he was so sorry that he had that on his record. He just wanted to clear his record befo...
FRANKIE HARRIS ...Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch.
It was Zsadist.
His eyes closed, his h...
J.R. WARD I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put what...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed
OSCAR WILDE Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd eve...
CASSANDRA CLARE He never wanted to do anything but military. But he always had a smile on his face. It just breaks m...
KAREN COOPER We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL The ball was really coming out of his hand well. I don't think his arm strength is built up quite en...
DAVE PIEPENBRINK [He added,] Well-dressed, fit, and vigorous for his 73 years, he was a tough political partisan. He...
BOB RAE My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done a...
CARLOS GOMEZ He was real close to his family, his friends and God. He just wanted to help people. He had a very c...
GARY MACE He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged th...
MEG CABOT The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest ma...
WAGNER MOURA No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about hi...
HENRY ADAMS When I spoke to him he wasn't respectful. He just chewed on a straw when I asked him to take it out ...
CAROL HANSEN He died sober. He died clean for the rest of his life. He ended his life the way we wanted him to be...
WALLIS HUTCHKO Mina’s mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under...
MELJEAN BROOK Gosh, it's easy!' he marveled, open-mouthed. 'I never knew before how easy it is to kill anyone! Twe...
CORNELL WOOLRICH The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. ...
MARTIN AMIS Is he 100 percent perfect? No. But he's certainly well enough to get on a plane and go to New York t...
PAUL SHEFRIN He lost consciousness for 2 seconds, like he fell into a black hole. His eyes were wide open, but he...
MARCEL DESAILLY Moose was great; we ran the pitch count up more than we wanted to, but he was a trooper tonight. He ...
JOE TORRE He could have more strikeouts, but he just wants to get you out as quickly as he can. He just quietl...
DENNIS LUQUET I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help m...
JONI EARECKSON TADA No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...
HENRY ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS When he came back to the club he had to cut back but he took it in his stride and I can't speak high...
DAVE ANDREWS No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He ...
TRENTON LEE STEWART I have no pain, but he has split open my skull.
There is no matter, I mean, there is no brain i...
SANDRA HARNER He could think of only one reason for her to be there, though it made
no sense after what he'd ...
CASSANDRA CLARE He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his readi...
JOHN AUBREY He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his readi...
ISAAC ASIMOV One of her arms was around his waist as her eyes fluttered open. He found himself lost in limpid blu...
CAROLYN JEWEL What the Lady was happening? The man had his mouth smashing on Tarin's, and his tongue was shoving a...
SYD MCGINLEY The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wron...
CRISS JAMI He loved baseball. He wanted to play baseball, he just wasn't good enough. He wanted to stay involve...
BYRON MOTLEY I don't want to put words in his mouth. I'm just saying his comments before certainly factor into th...
CAROL LEAR He exhibited tremendous intelligence. And he liked to mess around with his opponents on the track. H...
LAURA HILLENBRAND That was when you began to hear a lot more about his drinking. And that was when his back flared up ...
ERNEST CLARK Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he absolutely had to.
UNKNOWN My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed...
CLAUDE CHABROL I can't say enough about how much he helped me during the transition. He wanted to stick around and ...
EDWARD ZANDER He certainly had a clear vision for PAG. He wasn't there long enough to see it through, but it's con...
GAREL RHYS She gazed back at him, her mouth open, gasping for air. Her white blouse rose and fell with each pan...
BONNIE DEE She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he ha...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He actually had an entertainer who wanted to buy one of his cars, and that was going to bring in a l...
GEORGE LEWIS He just wanted to talk about the day each one of us had. What I did, what he did.
BILLY DONOVAN He has no reason to hang his head. He hit two big free throws for us earlier, and he wanted the ball...
JAMES CALKINS If you give money to poor guy he knows how to spend them, so if you have money which are redundant g...
DEYTH BANGER It just started off when he was telling a story about his favorite players and his family, then it l...
MARTEL STRANGE I didn't think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and m...
LEIGH BARDUGO [And in May 2000, Pat's agony was compounded when Kevin took his final fix.] In some ways it was a r...
PAT MITCHELL Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Ver...
NORMAN ROCKWELL He told me about his love for Notre Dame football and how he just wanted to make it through this gam...
CHARLIE WEIS I read your poem," I croaked. "'Fall.'"
Then something I never thought would happen, happened: ...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY He shook his head. He didn't know. He couldn't tell when he had woken fully. He walked to the horses...
JOHN FLANAGAN He kept working and got better every game. He wanted to have a great year, and he just tried very ha...
ARCHIE SHERBINOW Tony (Newton) wanted to sell. His kids are getting older and as kids get older they get more involve...
JEANIE PITZENBERGER He didn't know how much more time he had. But he wanted everybody to know to tell my mom that he lov...
ANN MERIDETH I just wanted him to play to his potential. He hadn't had a complete game to this point.
MARK STOOPS When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He wanted to wake up every morning to her. Go to sleep with his body wrapped tightly around hers. He...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. He basically led this team for the last 10 years when you think about it. We knew why he came back. ...
CHARLIE BATCH He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazin...
MAYA ANGELOU He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When ...
LEE ANDERSON It was about things he had always wanted to write about, but was never quite able to.
BRUCE JACKSON He got angry in a good way. He had just had enough and he responded in a manner that you'd expect a ...
JOE MADDON All at once it was just too much, and Harvey felt something about to snap. He drew back into the sha...
YUKAKO KABEI He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS He didn't talk much about it. He just left it behind and just kind of wanted to get into oblivion wi...
BONNIE FICK He was about to enter school. I had just finished his paperwork.
JAMEELA ABBAS He was really keyed up tonight. He jumped fine over the first jump, but when we hit the turn he want...
ROBERT WALSH Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonio...
TREVOR ST. JOHN Whoever keeps his mouth shut when he realizes that he is wrong is wise and he who holds the mouth ev...
VIKRANT PARSAI I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll...
SUSAN EE He always wanted more and more;soon he was no more.
DR HITESH C SHETH He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, ...
MICHAEL ENDE No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU He had wanted to go to the Academy and become a Shadowhunter, to learn more about his own life and r...
CASSANDRA CLARE He's going to have to stop putting his foot in his mouth and start talking about the things he wants...
DANIELLE VINSON I'm not sure why he changed his mind. He never really said. He just said he wanted to be a Marine. H...
BARBARA ANDERSON At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into ...
JAMES BARBER When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for ...
CHARLES DUHIGG If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire...
VICTOR HUGO Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE

More P.G. Wodehouse

If he had a mind, there was something on it.
P.G. WODEHOUSE Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
P.G. WODEHOUSE There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P.G. WODEHOUSE It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it aft...
P.G. WODEHOUSE If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mi...
P.G. WODEHOUSE She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when".
P.G. WODEHOUSE Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fatt...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.
P.G. WODEHOUSE And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
P.G. WODEHOUSE Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasant...
P.G. WODEHOUSE He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
P.G. WODEHOUSE I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's alwa...
P.G. WODEHOUSE I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
P.G. WODEHOUSE Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
P.G. WODEHOUSE It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help b...
P.G. WODEHOUSE ...and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.
P.G. WODEHOUSE The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wron...
P.G. WODEHOUSE There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
"The mood will pass, s...
P.G. WODEHOUSE He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for th...
P.G. WODEHOUSE A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-p...
P.G. WODEHOUSE The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap re...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Mike’s statement that he wanted to get up early and have a ride had been received by Psmith, with ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE How long Archibald slept he could not have said. He woke some hours later with a vague feeling that ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE No fair-minded girl objects to a certain tinge of jealousy. Kept within proper bounds, it is a compl...
P.G. WODEHOUSE No sir," said Mr Molloy. "I'm mighty sorry I can't meet you in any way, but the fact is I'm all fixe...
P.G. WODEHOUSE What ho!" I said.
"What ho!" said Motty.
"What ho! What ho!"
"What ho! What ho! What ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
P.G. WODEHOUSE At a time when she was engaged to Stilton Cheesewright, I remember recording in the archives that sh...
P.G. WODEHOUSE In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum...
P.G. WODEHOUSE At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situati...
P.G. WODEHOUSE I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a nor...
P.G. WODEHOUSE It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar...
P.G. WODEHOUSE That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.
P.G. WODEHOUSE There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
P.G. WODEHOUSE The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.
P.G. WODEHOUSE Employers are like horses — they require management.
P.G. WODEHOUSE The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.
P.G. WODEHOUSE From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular mess...
P.G. WODEHOUSE She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.
P.G. WODEHOUSE The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hou...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?
P.G. WODEHOUSE I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed...
P.G. WODEHOUSE If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?
P.G. WODEHOUSE What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
P.G. WODEHOUSE I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare -- or, if not, it's some...
P.G. WODEHOUSE But when I say 'cow', don’t go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.
P.G. WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE It seems to be one of Nature’s laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractiv...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with,...
P.G. WODEHOUSE A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in s...
P.G. WODEHOUSE He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to s...
P.G. WODEHOUSE One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I...
P.G. WODEHOUSE ...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. I...
P.G. WODEHOUSE One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to reme...
P.G. WODEHOUSE You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
P.G. WODEHOUSE Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled...
P.G. WODEHOUSE It was a morning when all nature shouted "Fore!" The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, s...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
P.G. WODEHOUSE The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterfli...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge t...
P.G. WODEHOUSE To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P.G. WODEHOUSE There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. Th...
P.G. 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 A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.
P.G. WODENHOUSE It was a morning when all nature shouted "Fore!" The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, s...
P.G. WODHOUSE Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thou...
P. G. WODEHOUSE I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. WODEHOUSE He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, b...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to l...
P. G. WODEHOUSE He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
P. G. WODEHOUSE She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P. G. WODEHOUSE I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
P. G. WODEHOUSE Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge t...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. WODEHOUSE There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. WODEHOUSE The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterfli...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
P. G. WODEHOUSE Flowers are happy things.
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 Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriora...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
P. G. WODEHOUSE To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P. G. WODEHOUSE Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
P. G. WODEHOUSE Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with,...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wron...
P. G. WODEHOUSE At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situati...
P. G. WODEHOUSE A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in s...
P. G. WODEHOUSE If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. WODEHOUSE Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE He virtually lives on fish
P. G. WODEHOUSE The lunches of fifty-seven years had caused his chest to slip down to the mezzanine floor.
P. G. WODEHOUSE To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P. G. WODEHOUSE He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
P. G. WODEHOUSE The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I li...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
P. G. WODEHOUSE I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.
P. G. WODEHOUSE "Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first,...
P. G. WODEHOUSE She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."
P. G. WODEHOUSE If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress rou...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thou...
P. G. WODEHOUSE New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to...
P. G. WODEHOUSE She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE I always advise people never to give advice.
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE My only objection to the custom of giving books as Christmas presents is perhaps the selfish one tha...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Golf...is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge th...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is f...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Flowers are happy things.
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and t...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE