Creative Quotations from . . .
P. G. Wodehouse
(1881-1975) born on
Oct 15
English "novelist, humorist". "He is best known for farces of English gentry; created characters Wooster and Jeeves in "The Inimitable Jeeves," 1924."
 
   
F
He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg."

R
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
A
"If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it by a short head."
N
"While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled."
K
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Quoted in R. Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End, Ch. 4"
R: "Bring on the Girls," (with Guy Bolton)"
A: "My Man Jeeves," 'The Spot of Art'"
N: "The Code of the Woosters.""
K: "In "The Golfer's Book of Wisdom," ed. by Criswell Freeman, 1995."



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