P. G. Wodehouse

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

— P. G. Wodehouse

#apt #character #deteriorate #golf #like

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

#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

Golf, like measles, should be caught young. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#golf #like #measles #should #young

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

#chap #clothes #forgotten #had #his

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#like #martini #shaken #white

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

— P. G. Wodehouse

#alcohol #discovered #food #george #medical

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

#back #climbed #comes #gradually #heights

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

— P. G. Wodehouse

#find #golf #him #man #play

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#cure #frenchman #gray #gray hair #guillotine

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

#did #five #i #just #know