P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

'The fellow with a face rather like a walnut.'

P. G. Wodehouse

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• As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Creation

• Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Choice
  • Content
  • Blessings

• I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Page

• We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Choices

• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Victory
  • Defeat

• I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Family
  • Money
  • Same

• I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Anything
  • Surprised
  • Anymore

• If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Rejection
  • Take

• I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I found a job in the government. And the government was appreciably more welcoming.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Job
  • Government

• History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. It is always hungry for bread, sweaty with labor, struggling to wrest from nature and hostile men enough to feed its children. The welfare of the mass is always at odds with the selfish force of the strong.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Men
  • Children
  • History

• Liebende … wenn ihr einer dem andern euch an den Mund hebt und ansetzt –: Getränk an Getränk: o wie entgeht dann der Trinkende seltsam der Handlung.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.

  

  Jack Vance
  • History
  • True

• There was this book I read and loved,The story of a shipWho sailed around the world and foundThat nothing else existsBeyond its own two sailsAnd wooden shellAnd what is held within.All else is sure to pass.We clutch and graspAnd debate what's truly permanent.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • World
  • Book

• I AM EVERYWHERE

  

  Luc Besson

• I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Opportunity

• There are some folks at the teacher's union who aren't big fans of mine, in part, because I have been open and want to make sure everybody is sitting at the table as we talk about education.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Education
  • Teacher

• There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Universe
  • Religion

• At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

  

  Catherine Tate
  • Empty
  • Glasses
  • Core

• And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the heaven-stormer back to Lucifer. Germany is today the next great war aim of Bolshevism. It requires all the force of a young missionary idea to raise our people up again, to free them from the snares of this international serpent.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • People
  • Advances
  • Oppose

• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • May
  • House
  • Friend

• I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • Character

• 'The fellow with a face rather like a walnut.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse