44 Quotes by P G Wodehouse

I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

It just shows how one half of the world doesn't know how three quarts live.

...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.

The cells smell is a great feature of French prisons. Ours in No.44 was one of those fine broad-shouldered up and coming young smells, which stand on both feet and look the world in the eye. We became very fond and proud of it.

She was definitely the sort of girl who puts her hands over a husband's eyes, as he is crawling in to breakfast with a morning head, and says "Guess who!

He looked like a Dictator on the point of starting a purge.

You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both.

Many a time in the past, when an active operator on Wall Street, he had done things...which would have caused raised eyebrows on the fo'c'sle of a pirate sloop - and done them without a blush.