Wodehouse Quotes

The Bishop was talking to the local Master of Hounds about the difficulty he had in keeping his vicars off the incense. - P. G. Wodehouse

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. - P. G. Wodehouse

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

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say when. - P G Wodehouse

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. - P. G. Wodehouse

She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season. - P. G. Wodehouse

Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life. - P. G. Wodehouse

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed. - P. G. Wodehouse

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. - P. G. Wodehouse