If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
P. G. WodehouseI believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself if it is all right as a story. I mean, once you go saying to yourself, 'This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay,' you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them.
P. G. WodehouseIt is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
P. G. WodehouseLike so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.
P. G. Wodehouse