Inspirational Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.”

“Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.”

“You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.”

“I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare -- or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad -- who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.”

“A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”

“Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.”

“It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.”

“She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season”

“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”

“What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?”

“In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.”

“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”

“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”

“I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”

“Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?”

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”

“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”

“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”

“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”

“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”

“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.”

“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'”

“He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”

“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.”

“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”