675 Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse

One of the Georges,” said Psmith, “I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours’ sleep a day – I cannot recall for the moment how many – made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory. However, there you are. I’ve given you the main idea of the thing; and a German doctor says that early rising causes insanity.

She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage society or a league for the suppression of eggs.

It was all Mrs. Waddington could do to refrain from hurling a bust of Edgar Allan Poe at her head.

The only way of really finding out a man’s true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

A pictorial record of his hopes and despairs would have looked like a fever chart.

He stood looking at the detective like Schopenhauer’s butcher at the selected lamb.

That is all, Augustus,′ she said, and dismissed me with a gesture of loathing, as if I had been a green-fly that had fallen short of even the very moderate level of decency of the average run-of-the-mill green fly.

It’s curious how, when you’re in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

She’s a sort of human vampire-bat.