P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
Quotes to Explore
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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I think a spell abroad for anybody is incredibly useful. It gives you a great sense of perspective, and you see other ways of doing things.
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As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.
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Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!
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The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
