P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 5

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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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• I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Stories, Feels

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lobster, Looks

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• 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.

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  Lying, Cat, Apology

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

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• So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

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  Optimistic, Trying, Looks

  P. G. Wodehouse (1966). “Uncle Dynamite”, Penguin Group USA

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• In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

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  Men, Two, Affair

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “Indiscretions of Archie”, p.43, The Floating Press

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• Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.

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  Girl, Home, Writing

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.116, 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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• Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

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  Men, Looks, May

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Nothing Serious”, Everyman Paperback Classics

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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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• I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Tea, Littles

  P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.53, The Floating Press

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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.

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  Writing, Stories, Narrative

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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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• 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 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.

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  Names, Psalms, Silent

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

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• ...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

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  Men, Smoking, Criticism

  P. G. Wodehouse (1990). “The Cat-Nappers”, HarperCollins

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• I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

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  World, Moments, Oneself

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• Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

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  League, Hot, Hey

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• Employers are like horses — they require management.

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  Horse, Management, Employers

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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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• Flowers are happy things.

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  Flower, Reality, Happy Things

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

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  Boys, Men, Advice

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

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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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