P. G. Wodehouse

Quote: Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don?t hesitate. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: 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]

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

Quote: Golf, like measles, should be caught young. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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]

Quote: He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: He virtually lives on fish [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: 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]

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

Quote: I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: 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]

Quote: I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don?t you know, if you see what I mean. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it by a short head. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: 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]

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

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

Quote: New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author?s life. [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season. [P. G. Wodehouse]

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

Quote: She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say ?when.? [P. G. Wodehouse]

Quote: 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]

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