P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBEwas an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth15 October 1881
country fighting feelings
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.
dog ears dachshunds
Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?
tree old-friends roof
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
cat night office
As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.
boys men advice
Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
powerful meaning-well looks
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.
events opinion thickness
In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
bricks within-reach trusted
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
uncles medicine discovery
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
life mean reality
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.
dust romance occasional
In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.
memories food humorous
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
artist jars sensitive
It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.
jeeves disgruntled ifs
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.