P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

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As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

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Real, People, Giving

P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Something New: Or, Something Fresh”, p.220, The Floating Press

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One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

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Names, Mind, Age

P. G. Wodehouse (2004). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.169, 1st World Publishing

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Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

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Mind, Soup, Poor

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I always advise people never to give advice.

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Inspirational, Humorous, People

P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.

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Funny, Humor, Doctors

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I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

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Light, Strive, Sweetness

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One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

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Life Is, Telling The Truth, Moments

P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Hot Water”, p.248, Random House

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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 make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

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Humorous, Hunting, Ideas

"Ring for Jeeves". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1953.

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He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

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Inspirational, People, Intelligence

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Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

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Fun, Illegal, Fattening

P. G. Wodehouse (1994). “The Theatre Omnibus”, Hutchinson Radius

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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.

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Depression, Men, Melancholy

P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.126, The Floating Press

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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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Death, Sports, Humorous

P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

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Book, Writing, Apology

"The Girl in Blue". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1970.

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There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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Friendship, Beautiful, Reading

P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

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Drinking, Alcohol, Cooking

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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

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Women, Difficult Situations, Age

P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Uneasy Money: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.349, ReadHowYouWant.com

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The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

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Humorous, Wrong Number, Voice

P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.569, Random House

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She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

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Women, Clothes, Jeeves

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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Drunk, Cups, Looks

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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

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Life, Sorry, Humorous

The Man Upstairs (1914) title story

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Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

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Taken, Squares, Careers

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Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

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Fate, Boxing, Unseen

P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

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Sober, Motto

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There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.

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Matter, Jeeves, Moments

P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Wonderful Wodehouse 2: A Collection: Thank You Jeeves, Right Ho Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters”, p.784, Random House

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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

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Life, Humorous, Dark

P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Uneasy Money”, p.223, The Floating Press

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Born: October 15, 1881
Died: February 14, 1975
Occupation: Writer
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