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
abuse criticism mere
Mere abuse is no criticism.
grief golf games
I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?
giving littles bits
A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.
golf games glorious
It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.
golf what-is-love opponents
What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?
real golf excellence
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
golf men names
What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That's what I'm asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?
golf play wife
A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.
character golf men
The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.
dust romance occasional
In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.
golf men perfect
He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
artist jars sensitive
It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.
blood careers sweat
Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.
order clothes snow
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.