"...with each new book of mine I have……" — P.G. Wodehouse

"...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature."

— P.G. Wodehouse

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279 Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse has 279 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that…
Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely…
Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous…
The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff.…
Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed…
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with…
Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men,…
Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to…
Flowers are happy things.

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