Creative Quotations from P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)

Creative Quotations from . . .

P. G. Wodehouse
(1881-1975) born on Oct 15

English novelist, humorist. He is best known for farces of English gentry; created characters Wooster and Jeeves in "The Inimitable Jeeves," 1924.

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He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it by a short head.

While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled.

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Quoted in R. Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End, Ch. 4
R:	Bring on the Girls," (with Guy Bolton)
A:	My Man Jeeves," 'The Spot of Art'
N:	The Code of the Woosters."
K:	In "The Golfer's Book of Wisdom," ed. by Criswell Freeman, 1995.