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P. G. Wodehouse was a British writer, humorist, and composer, renowned for his humorous stories and novels, especially those featuring the characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. His works have been translated into many languages and have had a lasting impact on generations of readers.

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Famous P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

“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.”

Writing Looks Winning Realizing Height Shock Congratulations Comeback Writers And Writing Writing By Writers Writing From The Heart

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.”

Ifs Wells Looks Sometimes Walks Powerful Figures Fellows Caught London Bent Machinery Haggard Meaning Well

Book:Aunts Omnibus

Source: Aunts Omnibus

“Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.”

World Looks This World Providence Chumps

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”

Looks Found Bottom Drunk Cups Beetles

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.”

Years Looks Stills Wanted Form Humanity Particular Messages Seasons Ghost Eighty

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.”

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Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.”

Ifs Looks Long Asking Favourite Juice Grapes Nephew

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“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 talk French.”

Men Looks Faces Young Speak Language Shame Young Man Sat Hotel Englishmen Cannes Terrace Speaks French

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.”

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.”

Want Humans Wells Looks Political House Careers Taken Spots Squares Freak Inmates House Of Commons

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“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.”

Ifs Feels Looks Made Dog Nasty

Book:Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories

Source: Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories

“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?”

Ifs Looks Play Care Games Grief Secret Cases Worry Shots Balls Hot Raises Golf Don't Care Instance Miserable Over You Chips Wretched

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.”

Looks Humorous Sarcastic Haircuts Hairstyles Chrysanthemums

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.”

Trying Looks Sides Optimistic Silver Sunny Sunny Side

Book:Uncle Dynamite

Source: Uncle Dynamite

“Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.”

Men Looks May Able Behinds Respectable Spirals Staircases Spiral Staircases

Book:Nothing Serious

Source: Nothing Serious

About the Author

Born: October 15, 1881
Died: February 14, 1975
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 328

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Right Ho, JeevesRelated source material

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