P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Home, Writing

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.116, Booklassic

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• I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Want

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• Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Looks, May

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

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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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Stories, Problem, Come Up

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

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Higher, Presses

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

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Party, Speak

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

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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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Race, Next

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

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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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• 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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  World, Moments, Oneself

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• The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Country, Light, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.56, Random House

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• Employers are like horses — they require management.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  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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• It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Uncles, Discovery, Medicine

  The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) ch. 16

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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?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Men, Careers

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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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• 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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• It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

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  Dog, Looks, Nasty

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Thinking, Different

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• Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Work, Names, Bob

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Psmith, Journalist”, p.248, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Stories, Five

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