Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. – P. G. Wodehouse
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. – P. G. Wodehouse
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. – P. G. Wodehouse
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. – P. G. Wodehouse
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. – P. G. Wodehouse
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. – P. G. Wodehouse
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. – P. G. Wodehouse
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. – P. G. Wodehouse
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. – P. G. Wodehouse
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. – P. G. Wodehouse
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ‘when!’ – P. G. Wodehouse
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. – P. G. Wodehouse
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 faithfully and well. – P. G. Wodehouse
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. – P. G. Wodehouse
