21 Quotations by P. G. Wodehouse
- 1. A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in s ...

- 2. At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situati ...

- 3. Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, ...

- 4. Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops ...

- 5. Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

- 6. Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge t ...

- 7. Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to ...

- 8. Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ...

- 9. He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to ...

- 10. He was built on large lines, and seemed to fill the room to overflowing. In physique he was not unli ...

- 11. He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

- 12. I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

- 13. If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

- 14. It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and th ...

- 15. Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

- 16. Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress rou ...

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

- 18. Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to l ...

- 19. The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wron ...

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

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