P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.'. Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Men
  • Progress
  • Said

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Learn

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Hope
  • Nothing
  • Expect

• Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • You
  • See
  • Camera

• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Science
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Job
  • Parents

• I wish we had more diversity.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Wish
  • Diversity
  • I Wish

• Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • High
  • Today

• I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery

• We expect the launches of Skylake, Microsoft's Windows 10 and new OEM systems will bring excitement to client computing in the second half of 2015.

  

  Brian Krzanich

• There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.

  

  Vittorio De Sica
  • Past
  • Film
  • Negative

• It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Confidence
  • Body
  • Accomplish

• In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Ideas
  • Ocean
  • Found

• Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • People
  • Different

• When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.'. Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse