P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

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.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • World
  • Alone
  • Rest

• George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Always
  • Said
  • Rip

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Life
  • God
  • Man

• The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Reality

• The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn't have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn't be more grateful.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Age
  • Father
  • Stress

• I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Play

• Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Serious
  • Easy

• Wrong is for other people.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Other

• After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Country
  • Experience
  • Italian

• It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Community

• On a prayer,In a song,I hear your voice,And it keeps me hanging on.Oh, raining down, against the wind,I'm reaching out,'Till we reach the circle's end.When you come back to me again.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Song
  • Prayer
  • Wind

• The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • May
  • Science

• I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • People
  • Done
  • Wonder

• War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.

  

  Agnes Repplier
  • World
  • War
  • Hope

• The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Truth
  • Age

• I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Death

• My husband has always been my biggest supporter, and my mother has finally joined the cheerleading team now that her friends have been telling her that they like my work as well.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Mother

• The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Up
  • Essence
  • Refusing

• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  

  George Washington
  • Action
  • Moments
  • Reason

• Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Write
  • Police
  • Morality

• 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.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse