P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

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• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

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• Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.

  

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• The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

  

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• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

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• I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

  

  Taylor Negron
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• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  

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• I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.

  

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• All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.

  

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• I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.

  

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• I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.

  

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• We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

  

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• I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
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• 'Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
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• Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.

  

  Rachel True
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• Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.

  

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• The only place in London where one can forget that it is Sunday.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
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• God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
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• I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.

  

  John Edwards
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• When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.

  

  Joe Morton
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• Remember there is no success without hard work.

  

  Sophocles
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  • Remember
  • Success

• Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse