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From Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
- The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
- Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It…
- There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away…
- It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of…
- Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself…
- Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.
- ...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the…
- Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd…
- While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if…
- The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the…
- Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the…
- She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that…
- I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for…
- As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat…
- I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
- Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow,…
- Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All…
- From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am…
- Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the…
- I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I…
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