P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 7

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• It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Games, Glorious

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

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• I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, 'Which are my big scenes?' and then get every drop of juice out of them. The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Character, Writing

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• He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cousin, Animal, Air

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• Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Blow, Rabbits, Top Hats

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• As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Sex, Children

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• The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Brain, Soup, Motion Pictures

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Real, Believe, Writing

  P. G. Wodehouse (2000). “Sunset at Blandings”, Penguin Group USA

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• The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Golf, Men

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

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• Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

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  Strong, Men, World

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Psmith, Journalist”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Years, Serious

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life, Men, Done

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Uneasy Money: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Dark, Theatre

  1955 In the New York Mirror, 27 May.

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• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Character, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse (2006). “The Heart of a Goof”

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• Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lambs, Wells

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• Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10

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• In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Events, Opinion, Thickness

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Indiscretions of Archie”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sarcastic, Men, Years

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• It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Regret, Crime, Remorse

  P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Love Among the Chickens”, p.118, The Floating Press

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• What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Goes On, Jeeves, Conversation

  My Man Jeeves (1919) "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"

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• ...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

  Tombstone, Simple, Men

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.75, Booklassic

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• Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  America, Blonde, Citizens

  "Summer Moonshine". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1938.

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• No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Might, Found, Score

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Tales of St Austin's”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Marriage, Process, Prolonging

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• That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Pockets, World, Want

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.50, Booklassic

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• 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

  Girl, Stars, Mean

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.10, Booklassic

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