P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

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

Best, Memories, Cheap

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

God, Knowledge, Alone

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

Hair, Cure, Gray

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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 suppose.
P. G. Wodehouse

Writing, Before, Stories

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'
P. G. Wodehouse

Her, She, Forgotten

Flowers are happy things.
P. G. Wodehouse

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
P. G. Wodehouse

Bit, Sit, Curse

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P. G. Wodehouse

Laugh, Rather, She

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

Him, Short, Upset

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

Life, Good, Mean

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
P. G. Wodehouse

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

End, Wrong, Gun

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. Wodehouse

Few, Within, Reach

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

Good, Dark, After

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

Success, Character, Golf

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P. G. Wodehouse

Character, True, Him

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

Down, Wants, Ladder

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
P. G. Wodehouse

Young, Golf, Caught

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

Forgotten, Clothes, Chap

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
P. G. Wodehouse

White, Dry, Martini

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

Life, Made, Her

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

Food, Medical, Thought

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

Success, Him, Realize

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 15, 1881

Died: February 14, 1975

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