Quotes from P. G. Wodehouse


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


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


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


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


I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.


Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.


He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.


Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.


Golf, like measles, should be caught young.


There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.


Flowers are happy things.


He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'


I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.


The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.


Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.


She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.


Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.


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.


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


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