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Golf... is the infallible test...

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.

Pelham Wodehous

...smoking is just a habit. 'T...

...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

Pelham Wodehous

I clutched at the brow. The mi...

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

Pelham Wodehous

He felt like a man who, chasin...

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

Pelham Wodehous

Intoxicated? The word did not ...

Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.

Pelham Wodehous

No one so dislikes being punis...

No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.

Pelham Wodehous

A girl who bonnets a policeman...

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

Pelham Wodehous

I pity the shrimp that matches...

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

Pelham Wodehous

Some minds are like soup in a ...

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurantЂ'better left unstirred.

Pelham Wodehous

Half a league Half a league Ha...

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Pelham Wodehous

In all crises of human affairs...

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.

Pelham Wodehous

Work, the what's-its-name of t...

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

Pelham Wodehous

It was one of the most disgust...

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

Pelham Wodehous

Well, you know what the Fulham...

Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.

Pelham Wodehous

If it were not for quotations,...

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Pelham Wodehous

And, anyway, no matter how muc...

And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.

Pelham Wodehous

I go in for what is known in t...

I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.

Pelham Wodehous

It is never difficult to disti...

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

Pelham Wodehous

I suppose half the time Shakes...

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

Pelham Wodehous

Mr Beach was too well bred to ...

Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe ignored the eyebrows. ... Mr Beach's eyebrows were still mutely urging him to reveal all, but Ashe directed his gaze at that portion of the room which Mr Beach did not fill. He was hanged if he was going to let himself be hypnotized by a pair of eyebrows into incriminating himself.

Pelham Wodehous

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