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
life husband brain
Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.
sunshine rays scottish
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
punishment mirrors glutton-for-punishment
Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
dog looks nasty
It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.
wine heart thinking
The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.
horse golf gambling
Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.
work names bob
Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.
hero noble stories
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
party speak
It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.
age may literature
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
laughing
When you're alone you don't do much laughing.
ideas debtors good-times
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
eye son parent
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
iron demand circumstances
It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.