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
sheep sailing jeeves
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
kindness love-you acts-of-kindness
It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.
speed bigs slabs
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
love glasses people
My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.
funny humor apples
An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.
moving character thinking
Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble.
snow way dukes
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
coffee people lists
A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.
inspirational people intelligence
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
character golf men
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
lying golf men
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
ideas lemons
I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.
men air selfish-people
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
ties matter jeeves
-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter