Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse quotes

“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”

— Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”

— Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”

— Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”

— Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”

— Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.”

— Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse