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P.G. Wodehouse

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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
MALLORY ORTBERG I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and '...
BILL BRYSON Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. ...
MARTIN AMIS No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu...
JAMES BLAYLOCK A quote isn't a quote until that quote is quotably quoted by and official Quotesman
I AM TIMEPIECE The internet has too much information out there for you to ask a dumb question
I AM TIMEPIECE I am no longer a rare breed, I am an endangered species
I AM TIMEPIECE I wish there was an edit button on Life because sometimes we don't realize the mistakes we've made u...
I AM TIMEPIECE Life are full of memories, capture them
I AM TIMEPIECE I don't fit in because I was born to stand out
I AM TIMEPIECE I have learned that I am a one-woman man.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeti...
ANTHONY BURGESS The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing in...
AURORA If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he ha...
ANTHONY BURGESS Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're...
MEGAN FOX I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right ...
DON HENLEY I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.
TATYANA ALI I am so ready to be a Mommy. I can't wait! I notice every little baby dress, every little baby toy, ...
HALLE BERRY I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
JON STEWART I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls....
CAROLYN LEE ADAMS I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
JON STEWART I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I have learned to be patient.
YUAN YUAN TAN (from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)

In the ...
NICK HORNBY This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes o...
KEVIN SORBO I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
SOJOURNER TRUTH I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI 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 He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more...
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

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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 He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more...
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 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