P.G. Wodehouse Quotes

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• She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.' Been
• 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. Despair
• I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. Five
• She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. Inspirational
• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. Adjoining
• I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. Bit
• It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. Advance
• To find a man's true character, play golf with him. Character
• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. Acquisition
• 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… Always Something
• 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… Author
• Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks. Bricks
• Golf, like measles, should be caught young. Caught
• He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. Dry
• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. Anybody
• I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself. Breakfast
• In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness. Achieved
• A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own,… Companion
• In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery.… Been
• A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. Adult

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