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Names Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
- What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition…
- Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.
- Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade…
- I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such…
- A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained…
- They pointed out that the friendship between the two artistes had always been a by-word or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it…
- One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his…
More Names Quotes
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — Paul Auster
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila