There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
P.G. WodehouseTags: friendship literature
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor temptation new-york-city
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
P.G. WodehouseWhen you're alone you don't do much laughing.
P.G. WodehouseYou would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.
P.G. WodehouseOther men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts. George's mouth had all the exclusiveness of a fashionable club. His breast stroke was a thing to see and wonder at. When he did the crawl, strong men gasped. When he swam on his back, you felt that that was the only possible method of progression.
P.G. WodehouseMarriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor love marriage sarcasm matrimony married-life blandness lack-of-feeling lovelessness
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
P.G. WodehouseEverything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
P.G. WodehouseIt was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
P.G. WodehouseTags: drinking
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