P G Wodehouse Quotes Quotes & Sayings

The many governments within a single metropolitan area are almost designed to fight among themselves because state law makes them largely dependent on locally raised tax revenues...People, pies, cars, rails, and the nebulous entity known as the economy might flow seamlessly across local boundaries, but sales and property tax dollars rarely do. — Bruce Katz

I mean, I believe in mountains and all, but I understand it's a controversial viewpoint. I would never force that viewpoint on others. — Joseph Fink

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature. — Mary Virginia Provines

Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts — P.G. Wodehouse

Any time you need to use the term hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal in order to make your point, you've got trouble. — Paul Tough

I like to consider myself young at heart and ageless. — DeLisha Milton-Jones

How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine. Yet many authors think nothing of saying, 'Ready, Miss Spelvin? Take dictation. Quote no comma Sir Jasper Murgatroyd comma close quotes comma said no better make it hissed Evangeline comma quote I would not marry you if you were the last person on earth period close quotes Quote well comma I'm not so the point does not arise comma close quotes replied Sir Jasper twirling his moustache cynically period And so the long day wore on period End of chapter.'
If I had to do that sort of thing I should be feeling all the time that the girl was saying to herself as she took it down, 'Well comma this beats me period How comma with homes for the feebleminded touting for custom on every side comma has a man like this succeeded in remaining at large mark of interrogation. — P.G. Wodehouse

Good things soon find a purchaser. — Plautus

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. — Laurence J. Peter

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam. — Orson Scott Card