P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

P. G. Wodehouse

• Mirror

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Space
  • Here
  • Sold

• The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Done
  • Something
  • Respond

• I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feel

• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Best
  • Honor

• When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!

  

  Randy West
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Never

• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Help
  • Today
  • Free

• I'm beyond the normal person. I'm not your everyday Joe.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Person
  • Everyday
  • Normal

• We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Best
  • Choice
  • Be Prepared

• Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Boxing

• I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Think

• I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Book
  • Autograph
  • Non-Reader

• I still don't get golf.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Golf
  • Get
  • Still

• It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Doing

• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Status Quo

• All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sentences

• A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Heart
  • Culture
  • Education

• We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

  

  Max Bill
  • Art
  • Words

• With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • People
  • School
  • Game

• Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

  

  Lennart Meri
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Mirror

• Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mirror