Quotes: PG Wodehouse
PG Wodehouse
Like a bit of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams? Then you'd do well to seek out PG Wodehouse – the deliciously witty novelist who influenced a generation of comedians and writers. Best known for the Jeeves and Wooster stories, the prolific author was also a talented playwright and lyricist and collaborated with the likes of George Gershwin and Cole Porter.
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I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It's called the guillotine.
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Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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Book dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
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At the age of 11 or thereabouts, women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he's lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in his late 70s.
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He looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when'.
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