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
white dry martini
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
funny dark theatre
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
congratulations writing winning
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.
horse management employers
Employers are like horses — they require management.
alcohol misunderstood vitamins
Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
autumn air blood
It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.
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I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.
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-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter
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One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.
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The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.