P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
"Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Success, Character, Wealth, Golf)
"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: End, Right, Wrong)
"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
(Related: Butterflies)
"There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Cure, Hair)
"To find a man's true character, play golf with him."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Character, Golf, Man, Play)
"Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum."
- P. G. Wodehouse
"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Clothes)
"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
"Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Memories)
"It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Food, Medical, Thought, Alcohol)
"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
(Related: Life, People, Apologies, Right, Want, Wrong)
"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
(Related: Writing)
"I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit."
- P. G. Wodehouse
"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
(Related: Clothes)
"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
"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
(Related: God, Knowledge, Golf, Lies, Man, Play, Will)
"Golf, like measles, should be caught young."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Golf)
"Flowers are happy things."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Flowers)
"Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks."
- P. G. Wodehouse
"Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Letters)
"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
(Related: Life, Despair, Salvation, Worth)
"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Being)