“What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers." "I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said. "Then, for a beginner," I… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Didn't Frankenstein get married?" "Did he?" said Eggy. "I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The fact that pigs were abroad in the night seemed to bring home to me the perilous nature of my enterprise.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Filled with a coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I don't know why it is, but I've never been able to bear with fortitude anything in the shape of a kid… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been turned down by a girl who afterwards married and then been introduced to her husband? If so you'll… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]: You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“A fellow told me one about Wembley yesterday," I said, to help on the cheery flow of conversation. "Stop me if you've… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“More and more, it was beginning to be borne in upon me what a particularly difficult chap Gussie was to help. He… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“You remind me of an old cat I once had. Whenever he killed a mouse he would bring it into the drawing-room… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“It seems to be one of Nature’s laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractive brothers. Fillmore Nicholas had… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“If you are ignorant of Lora Delane Porter’s books that is your affair. Perhaps you are more to be pitied than censured.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He's such a dear, Mr. Garnet. A beautiful, pure, bred Persian. He has taken prizes." "He's always taking something - generally food.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Gussie and I, as I say, had rather lost touch, but all the same I was exercised about the poor fish, as… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Ukridge was the sort of man who asks you to dinner, borrows money from you to pay the bill, and winds up… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Bream Mortimer was tall and thin. He had small bright eyes and a sharply curving nose. He looked much more like a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I suppose the fundamental distinction between Shakespeare and myself is one of treatment. We get our effects differently. Take the familiar farcical… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Love, Miss Halliday, is a delicate plant. It needs tending, nurturing, assiduous fostering. This cannot be done by throwing the breakfast bacon at a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“In these days in which we live, when existence has become a thing of infinite complexity and fate, if it slips us a bit… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don’t know?’ ‘I couldn’t say, sir.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Ask the first lion cub you meet, and it will tell you that, once you’ve tasted blood, there is no pulling up, and it’s… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He will lunch with you at your flat tomorrow at one-thirty. Please remember that he drinks no wine, strongly disapproves of smoking, and can… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Too often on such occasions one feels, as I feel so strongly with regard to poor old Stilton, that the kindly thing to do… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“My late Uncle Henry, you see, was by way of being the blot on the Wooster escutcheon. An extremely decent chappie personally, and one… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“...he switched on the [flashlight]. When he did so, he instantly became the center attraction to a rowdy mob of those gnats, moths, and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
![“[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]: You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more can't possibly hurt you, because you know you can pull up whenever you feel like it, but it is merely wish-full thinking. The craving has gripped you and there is no…” quote by P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/650/p-g-wodehouse-723_addiction_on-writing-jeeves-and-wooster-stories-yo_632474.jpg)
![“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." (Interview, The Paris Review , Issue 64, Winter 1975)” quote by P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/989/p-g-wodehouse-723_communication_a-lways-get-to-the-dialogue-as-soon-as-p_13316.jpg)
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