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P. G. Wodehouse quotes

English Writer, Playwright October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975

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I don't know why it is, but I've never been able to bear with fortitude anything in the shape of a kid with golden curls. Confronted with one, I feel the urge to step on him or drop things on him from a height. P. G. Wodehouse
This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money. P. G. Wodehouse
I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is..."
-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter."
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "When you're alone you don't do much laughing."
When you're alone you don't do much laughing. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything..."
I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head. P. G. Wodehouse
She is a waitress at his lordships club. My God! The Proletariat! The lower middle classes, sir. Well, yes, by stretching it a bit, perhaps. P. G. Wodehouse
Musical comedy is the Irish stew of drama. Anything may be put into it, with the certainty that it will improve the general effect. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that..."
You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well..."
It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem..."
Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve. P. G. Wodehouse
The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist. P. G. Wodehouse
I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir? P. G. Wodehouse
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well. P. G. Wodehouse

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