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.
passion love-life ideas
But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.
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.
happy-marriage foundation spirit
To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
golf men games
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.
golf games glorious
It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.
remember poet said
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.
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.