"I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs……" — P.G. Wodehouse
"I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind."
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279 Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
P.G. Wodehouse has 279 quotes on this site.
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Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
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"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that…
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely…
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Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous…
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The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
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I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff.…
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Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed…
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with…
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Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men,…
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Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.
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Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to…
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Flowers are happy things.
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Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the…
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step…
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A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
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