100 Memorable Quotes By PG Wodehouse That Will Fill You With Hope
Have you ever made someone laugh with your written work? If yes, then you would know how hard it is to purposefully write something that would incite a smile on someone’s face. Well, that calls for a round of appreciation for our humourists for they have not only mastered the art of storytelling but have become proficient at comedy as well. And while talking of humourists, one cannot just fathom the contribution made by PG Wodehouse in English literature. An author, comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright, Wodehouse believed that it was his easy take on life that allowed him to take a humorous view of things. Wodehouse’s writing started a legacy that survives in his characters most of which are still touted as the best in comic fiction. So, whether it is the feather-brained Bertie Wooster or the wise valet, Jeeves, the immaculate and loquacious Psmith or tell-tale man Mr Mulliner, each of them carry the legacy of Wodehouse’s brilliance till date. And just as his characters, fresh out of a woven classic comic fiction even today, Wodehouse quotes too are small gems of wisdom that have not lost their shine and sparkle, despite withstanding the test of time. Interestingly, he has penned quotes for every occasion and every situation. Read through the following section and get hold of some of the Quotes by PG Wodehouse. They sure will leave you smilingly with hope.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.
There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when".
I always advise people never to give advice.
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
If he had a mind, there was something on it.
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.
