P.g. Wodehouse

Quotes

• “One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his ...”
• “[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader of...”
• “She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would c...”
• “As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalmin...”
• “In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.”
• “I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”
• “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
• “There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”
• “He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
• “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
• “I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.”