Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

—P. G. Wodehouse

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About P. G. Wodehouse

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ( WUUD-howss; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the...

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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.

—P. G. Wodehouse

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

—P. G. Wodehouse

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

—P. G. Wodehouse

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

—P. G. Wodehouse

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Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

—P. G. Wodehouse

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What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

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Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

—Johnny Carson

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

—Virgil Thomson

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So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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