P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

P. G. Wodehouse (29)

Birth:	15th October, 1881
Death:	14th February, 1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Humorist, Lyricist, Novelist, Playwriter

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• What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Topics in Humor

• Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

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  Topics in Life, Love

• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Depends

• In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

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  Topics in Humor

• I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Writing

• The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

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  Topics in Love

• The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

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  Topics in Love

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

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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Could

• 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.

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  Topics in Humor, Life

  Tags in Never, Advantage

• 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

  Topics in God, Work

  Tags in Golf, Faithfully

• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dramatic

• Flowers are happy things.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

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• He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say “when!”

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  Topics in Beauty

• He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Hard

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

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• Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

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• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Linking

• I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Just

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh