P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • House
  • Beginning
  • Voice

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • People
  • World
  • College

• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Equal

• Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Men
  • Understand
  • Dress

• I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Job
  • Hand

• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Ugly
  • Engineering
  • Bridges

• I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • I Can
  • Pace

• I definitely want to work in Hindi films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Want
  • Films

• I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • History

• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Better
  • Roommates

• I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Change
  • Always
  • Shoes

• Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Want
  • Story
  • Finding

• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Women
  • Think
  • Man

• A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • True
  • Single

• There is a problem that is specific to financial markets. In most fields of research, when someone makes an important finding, they publish it. In the case of prices, they set up a firm and sell advice about their discovery. If they can make money from it, they will. So the research into market dynamics is a closed field.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • God
  • Fear
  • Wisdom

• People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • God
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

  

  Emanuel Ax
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Happy

• Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

  

  Evan S. Connell
  • Waiting
  • Relatives
  • Trace

• We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.

  

  Li Shufu
  • Important
  • Chinese

• Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse