P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 5

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• I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Names, Psalms, Silent

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Psmith, Journalist”, p.223, The Floating Press

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• He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lobster, Looks

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• It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

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  Party, Speak

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.146, Booklassic

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• I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

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  Stories, Problem, Come Up

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.3, Booklassic

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• Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Stories, Narrative

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• It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Passion, Aunt

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.192, Booklassic

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• Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

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  Higher, Presses

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Employers are like horses — they require management.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Management, Employers

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• The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Snow, Pockets, Way

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• Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Boys, Men, Advice

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Cocktail Time”, p.85, Random House

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• A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

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  Golf, Play, Long

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.241, The Floating Press

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• To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

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  Foundation, Happy Marriage, Spirit

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.158, The Floating Press

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• If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

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  Horse, Race, Next

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• Flowers are happy things.

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  Flower, Reality, Happy Things

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• I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?

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  Writing, Men, Careers

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• To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, Heaven, Dying

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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 stand around at a bar and drink.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Food, Order, Clothes

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• I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

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  Writing, Stories, Five

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• I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.

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  Writing, Thinking, Different

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• To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

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  Character, Golf, Men

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.130, The Floating Press

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• 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.

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  Life, Mean, Reality

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.

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  Hair, Red, Opinion

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• Routine is the death to heroism.

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  Death, Heroism, Routine

  "The Man Upstairs". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1914.

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• He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

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  White, Dry, Martini

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Cocktail Time”, p.19, Random House

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• When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

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  Girl, Mean, Adjectives

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