P. G. Wodehouse Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Baby, Father, Sadness

• 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

• Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Games

  P.G. Wodehouse (2013). “The Golf Omnibus”, p.163, Random House

• Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle pressure beneath the elbow while crossing a busy street usually fits the bill.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Wife, Support, Elbows

• A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mother, Wife

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