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P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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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

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

Flowers are happy things.
P. G. Wodehouse

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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

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

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

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

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

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


I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Biography
Type: Writer
Nationality: English
Born: October 15, 1881
Died: February 14, 1975

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