Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start. P. G. Wodehouse More Quotes by P. G. Wodehouse More Quotes From P. G. Wodehouse Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it. P. G. Wodehouse providence looks world But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion. P. G. Wodehouse love-life passion ideas Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? P. G. Wodehouse swimming lakes men You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir. P. G. Wodehouse affair situation crisis Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction. P. G. Wodehouse missing dream rabbits Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks. P. G. Wodehouse within-reach bricks trusted Golf is the Great Mystery. P. G. Wodehouse mystery golf Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. P. G. Wodehouse life mean reality It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work. P. G. Wodehouse sensitive artist jars Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life. P. G. Wodehouse sweat careers blood In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere. P. G. Wodehouse affair men two Now, I'm a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their boots, the smell of their legs, and the sound of their voices. It may be weak of me, but a man has only to speak to me, and a sort of thrill goes down my spine and sets my tail wagging. P. G. Wodehouse dog fun men Bertie," he said, "I want your advice." "Carry on." "At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old [prat], aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings, of course." "No, no, I see that." "What I wish you to do is put the whole thing to that fellow Jeeves of yours, and see what he suggests. P. G. Wodehouse hurt advice mean I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra la la' as I did the lathering for I was feeling in mid season form this morning. P. G. Wodehouse form feelings morning As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again. P. G. Wodehouse cat office night When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and Joy is king of everything, when Cynthia smiles. He coughed, changing gears. When Cynthia frowns - What the devil are you talking about?I'm reading you my poem. The one I wrote to Cynthia last night. I'll go on, shall I?No!No?No. I haven't had my tea. P. G. Wodehouse reading kings night I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings. P. G. Wodehouse fighting feelings country New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed. P. G. Wodehouse bed new-york america It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul. P. G. Wodehouse skills soul men Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache. P. G. Wodehouse advice men boys
