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P G Wodehouse Inspirational Quotes (174)

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I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!
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It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.
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This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
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My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.
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I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
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A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.
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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.
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A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.
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In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
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Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.
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Some time ago, he said, --how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.
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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.
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As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
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Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.
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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
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A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.
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She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
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He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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Flowers are happy things.
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I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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