P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Friends
  • Earth
  • Change

• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Best
  • Coffee
  • New York

• Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Together

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

  

  Valerie June
  • Want
  • Me
  • Inside

• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Why
  • Pretty

• I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Earth

• To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Earth
  • See
  • Naked

• One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Earth

• Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth... have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Fall

• We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Live
  • Today
  • Earth

• I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Happy
  • Think

• I wish I could play like Roger Federer.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Play

• Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Children
  • Friend
  • Prayer

• Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Earth
  • Kitchen
  • Breakfast