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
crazy ifs
There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.
lambs wells
Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.
dream missing satisfaction
Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.
stars queens perfect
I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.
character men order
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.' Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.' He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.' I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.
fate rocks feelings
...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.
young-friends names long
Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.
names psalms silent
I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.
strong men world
Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.
mind ifs
If he had a mind, there was something on it.
dog ears dachshunds
Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?
memories food humorous
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
life mean reality
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
funny humor tunnels
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.