675 Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

Flowers are happy things.

What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That's what I'm asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?

One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.

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.