Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.


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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
As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM
Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK
My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK
I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK
Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM
Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN
Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P
When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P
Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P.
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET
...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P.
I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA
Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P
If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P
So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK
Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH
Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH
Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH
Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
G-EAZY
Seeing Dre looking all cut up and in shape made me want to get myself together and look right, too.
WARREN G
My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody fo...
WARREN G
I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trade...
WARREN G
If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike S...
WARREN G
For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald...
WARREN G
Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio...
WARREN G
Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've...
WARREN G