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P. G. Wodehouse
English
Writer
About the author
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.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Success
#Writer
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Character
#Success
#Golf
#Wealth
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Right
#End
#Wrong
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Butterflies
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Cure
#Hair
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Character
#Play
#Golf
#Man
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Clothes
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Memories
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Food
#Thought
#Medical
#Alcohol
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Want
#Right
#Life
#People
#Wrong
#Apologies
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,
English
Writer
#Writing
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Clothes
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,
English
Writer
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.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#God
#Will
#Play
#Golf
#Man
#Knowledge
#Lies
Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Golf
Flowers are happy things.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Flowers
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
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.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Letters
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.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Life
#Worth
#Despair
#Salvation
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. Wodehouse,
English
Writer
#Being