P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

'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. '

P. G. Wodehouse

Quotes to Explore

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Malcolm Mclaren
- People
- Failure
- Plant
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

Ian Mckellen
- Life
- World
- Live
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

Salman Rushdie
- Life
- Religion
- Child
In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Air
- Sea
- Traffic
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

Ziggy Marley
- People
- Hurt
- Alcohol
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

Rachel Kushner
- Like
- Him
- Often