One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.
P. G. WodehouseThat is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.
P. G. WodehouseHe was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
P. G. WodehouseUnlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
P. G. WodehouseA man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
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. Wodehouse