P. G. Wodehouse Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.”

“She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'”

“Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.”

“She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.”

“It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”

“I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.”

“Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.”

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

“Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.”

“Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.”