What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.

P.G. Wodehouse


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I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going deep down into life and not caring a damn...

P.G. Wodehouse


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An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.

P.G. Wodehouse


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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say 'when'!

P.G. Wodehouse


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This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.

P.G. Wodehouse

Tag: ambition the-feudal-spirit the-peter-principle



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Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

P.G. Wodehouse

Tag: humour drinking motto wodehouse



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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.

P.G. Wodehouse

Tag: autumn



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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

P.G. Wodehouse

Tag: marriage brains



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I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again, and this after filling 400 words with notes, mostly delirious, before getting into anything in the nature of a coherent scenario.

P.G. Wodehouse


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I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.

P.G. Wodehouse

Tag: humor personal



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