P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

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• I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Culture

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

  

  Young Thug
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Young

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Singing

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • May
  • Hope
  • Government

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• If you want to go east, don't go west.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Want
  • You
  • Wisdom

• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Children
  • Father

• I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Environment

• For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Personality
  • Intelligence

• It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I feel fine as long I'm not running around.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Long
  • Running
  • Feel

• I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Up
  • Morning

• Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Long
  • May

• I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • Marriage

• You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking