Quotes by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

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

The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

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.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Flowers are happy things.