P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Humor, Life

  Tags in Never, Advantage

• 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 play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in God, Work

  Tags in Golf, Faithfully

• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dramatic

• He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say “when!”

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Beauty

• He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Hard

• It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought

• Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Young

• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Linking

• I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Just

• She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh

• Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Memory

• She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say “when.”

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Clothes

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Wealth, Character

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Invented

• To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character

• Why don’t you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Beauty
• 

  If he had a mind, there was something on it.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Tags in Mind

• I always advise people never to give advice.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Advice, Funny

P. G. Wodehouse (60)

Birth:	15th October, 1881
Death:	14th February, 1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Humorist, Lyricist, Novelist, Playwriter

About

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English humorist whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of a pre- and post-World War I English upper class society, reflecting his birth, education and youthful writing career.

Related Authors

• Thomas Hood
• Robert Quillen
• P. G. Wodehouse
• Brian P Cleary
• Douglas William Jerrold
• Adrienne E Gusoff
• Charles Stuart Calverley
• Evan Esar
• George S. Kaufman
• Robert Jones Burdette

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 27th December

Births

• 1930 - Meg Greenfield
• 1930 - Wilfrid Sheed
• 1969 - Sarah Vowell
• 1906 - Oscar Levant
• 1976 - Aaron Stanford

Deaths

• 1938 - Zona Gale
• 2003 - Alan Bates
• 1994 - Marjorie Joyner
• 1985 - Potter Stewart