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P. G. Wodehouse quotes

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

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P. G. Wodehouse quote: "There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a..."
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and..."
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. P. G. Wodehouse
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series..."
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when..."
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth, P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you..."
What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. P. G. Wodehouse
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:"He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute. P. G. Wodehouse
I did pick up a few tolerably ripe and breezy expressions out in France. All through my military career there was something about me - some subtle magnetism, don't you know, and that sort of thing - that seemed to make Colonels and blighters of that sort rather inventive. I sort of inspired them, don't you know. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of..."
Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship. P. G. Wodehouse
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 up by saying they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name P. G. Wodehouse
I could still see that Pauline was one of the most beautiful girls I had ever met, but of the ancient fire which had caused me to bung my heart at her feet that night at the Plaza there remained not a trace. Analysing this, if analyzing is the word I want, I came to the conclusion that this changed outlook was due to the fact that she was so dashed dynamic. Unquestionably an eyeful, Pauline Stoker had the grave defect of being one of those girls who want you to come and swim a mile before... P. G. Wodehouse
It seems to be one of Nature’s laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractive brothers. Fillmore Nicholas had not worn well. At the age of seven he had been an extraordinarily beautiful child, but after that he had gone all to pieces; and now, at the age of twenty-five, it would be idle to deny that he was something of a mess. P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill..."
Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman. P. G. Wodehouse
As I stood in my lonely bedroom at the hotel, trying to tie my white tie myself, it struck me for the first time that there must be whole squads of chappies in the world who had to get along without a man to look after them. I'd always thought of Jeeves as a kind of natural phenomenon; but, by Jove! of course, when you come to think of it, there must be quite a lot of fellows who have to press their own clothes themselves and haven't got anybody to bring them tea in the morning, and so on. It... P. G. Wodehouse
I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit. P. G. Wodehouse

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