P. G. Wodehouse Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I always advise people never to give advice.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Inspirational, Humorous, People

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Real, People, Giving

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Something New: Or, Something Fresh”, p.220, The Floating Press

• Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Divorce, Men, Class

  "Louder and Funnier". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1932.

• It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Running, Funny Things, Giving

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.6, Courier Corporation

• This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide. . . . Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Suicide, Country, Heart

• It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a proud family. Your ancestors fought in the Crusades and were often mentioned in despatches, and you cringe like a salted snail at the thought of appearing as Santa Claus before an audience of charming children who wouldn't hurt a fly. It's enough to make an aunt turn her face to the wall and give up the struggle.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

  P. G. Wodehouse (1994). “The Theatre Omnibus”, Hutchinson Radius

• The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Glasses, Giving, Whiskers

  "Uncle Dynamite". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1948.

• A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Giving, Littles, Bits

• 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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