The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

P.G. Wodehouse

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It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

P.G. Wodehouse

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If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

P.G. Wodehouse

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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.

P.G. Wodehouse


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There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
"The mood will pass, sir.

P.G. Wodehouse

Tags: humor clothes bad-mood appearance dejection



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He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.

P.G. Wodehouse

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I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

P.G. Wodehouse


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No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.

P.G. Wodehouse

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She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

P.G. Wodehouse

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-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

P.G. Wodehouse

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