P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Control
  • My Life

• The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Vision

• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Word

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Cancer

• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Technology

• I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Amazing
  • Special
  • Behind

• I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Path

• The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Peace

• There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Love
  • Universe

• It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Picture

• Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • American
  • Chinese

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • People
  • Tomorrow
  • Accept

• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Body

• A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Religion
  • Himself
  • Man's

• Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.

  

  Columbus Short
  • Character
  • True

• Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Character
  • Mother
  • Paris

• Barack Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Important
  • Barack Obama
  • Aggrandize

• "After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Character