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
men speaks-french looks
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
love girl bombs
When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.
expression nephew wish
[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.
golf tests golfers
The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
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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Routine is the death to heroism.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
marriage process prolonging
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
writing typewriters curse
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
life men done
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
alcohol misunderstood vitamins
Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.
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.
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Employers are like horses — they require management.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.