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One Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
- I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said…
- Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than…
- 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…
- I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;…
- It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to…
- And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped,…
- But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails…
- 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…
- He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way…
- When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and…
- My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.
- Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life…
- There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
- Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father,…
- Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots…
- He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
- The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
- A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
- It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a…
- Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew…
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