675 Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse

Work, the what’s-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d’you-call-it.

In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I’ve known him to do it’ ‘Do what?’ ‘Not strike lambs.

If you see a man asking for trouble, and insisting on getting it, the only thing to do is to stand by and wait till it comes to him. After that you may get a chance. But till then there’s nothing to be done.

The only thing that prevented a father’s love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg.

The reactions of a country-house party to an after-dinner dog-fight in the drawing-room always vary considerably according to the individual natures of its members. Lady.

There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem – slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

You could have knocked me down with a feather,′ said Lady Abbott, quite untruly. The feather had not been grown by bird that could have disturbed her balance for an instant.

Marriage isn’t a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It’s a partnership, and what’s the good of a partnership if your heart’s not in it? It’s like collaborating with a man you dislike...