P. G. Wodehouse Quotes - Page 11

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• I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Country, Fighting, Feelings

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• Bertie," he said, "I want your advice." "Carry on." "At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old [prat], aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings, of course." "No, no, I see that." "What I wish you to do is put the whole thing to that fellow Jeeves of yours, and see what he suggests.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hurt, Mean, Advice

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• Mere abuse is no criticism.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Abuse, Criticism, Mere

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.606, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Morning, Cheer, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Artist, Jars, Sensitive

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• You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sparring Partner, Curls, Would Be

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Piccadilly Jim: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.405, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Knitting, Smoking, Agents

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• Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sacred, Limits, Claims

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humility, Pride, Golf

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

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• 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

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• "After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Mean, Golf

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• We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Tree, Old Friends, Roof

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.15, Booklassic

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• We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Jeeves, Dignity, Quiet

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Inimitable Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.210, Random House

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• I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Brain, Rotten

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Thinking, May

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• Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bored, Bird, Bottles

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.5, Booklassic

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• Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Feelings, Sad Depressed, Policemen

  "The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories".

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• I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Wave, Bark, Stout

  "Laughing Gas". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1936.

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• Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Classic, Hellhounds

  'The Code of the Woosters' (1938) ch. 1

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• I wouldn't have a face like that,' proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness, 'not if you gave me a million dollars.' He thought for a moment, then corrected himself. 'Two million dollars!' he added.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Children, Two, Dollars

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Novelists, Spit

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

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• I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Wind, Rushing, Gowns

  P. G. Wodehouse (1991). “The great sermon handicap”, James H. Heineman

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• A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Medicine, Trying

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• When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Heart, Secret, Shrinking

  P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.272, Random House

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