Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse

“To find a man's true character, play golf with him.”

“Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you fait...”

“It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”

“Flowers are happy things.”

“Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.”

“Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.”

“Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.”

“As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses ...”

“He looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when."”

“Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum.”

“The butler entered the room a solemn procession of one.”

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”

“As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses int...”

“Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum.”

“The butler entered the room a solemn procession of one.”

“Routine is the death to heroism.”

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' (quoting John Greenleaf Whittier)”

“Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary, murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words Elementary, my dear Watson has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)”

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

“So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever.”