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
football strong mean
Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.
fate boxing gloves
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
golf years may
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
fate feelings fancy
I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.
golf caddies slugs
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
drunk cups looks
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
broke ten-commandments psmith
[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.
curves scenic railway
She had more curves than a scenic railway
country light house
The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.
sarcastic looks chrysanthemums
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
writing thinking want
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.
stories problem come-up
I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.
writing stories knows
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
funny character golf
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.