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P G Wodehouse
I spent the...
I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else,...
I pressed down...
I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.
I just sit...
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
Source: In Collier's, 31 Aug 1956;...
I know I...
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I...
Success comes to...
Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and...
Golf, like measles,...
Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
Source: In The Golfer's Book of Wisdom,...
I always advise...
I always advise people never to give advice.
Source: In The Golfer's Book of...
Chumps always make...
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings...
The Right Hon....
The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say...
Has anybody ever...
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no...
He felt like...
He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the...
Memories are like...
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
If I had...
If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it...
While not exactly...
While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled.
Source: The Code...
Sudden success in...
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the...
New York is...
New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to...
It is not...
It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.
It was my...
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical...
She fitted into...
She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs...
It is a...
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take...