P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Depends

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

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Wealth, Character

• 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

• 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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Memory

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought

• 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

• I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Writing

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Just

• I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Could

• 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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Young

• Flowers are happy things.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Flower

• 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.

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