P G Wodehouse

hi
today's blog is about pelham grenville wodehouse who reached the age of 93 and writing 93 novels was prolific in writing humourous old fashioned novels, they harken back to a treasured time.

Most notable is the 1920's Jeeves and Wooster canon but there are other gems to be found in the Blandings Castle series with dotty peers with pet pigs !

having read an/or purchased most of these - you maynot know what the fuss is about - have a chuckle to these ...............(any for lending out)

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
P. G. Wodehouse

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"
P. G. Wodehouse

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
P. G. Wodehouse

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

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. 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.
P. G. Wodehouse

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
P. G. Wodehouse

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

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P. G. Wodehouse

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."
P. G. Wodehouse

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
P. G. Wodehouse

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse

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

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse
hope that brought a few smiles to your face or are they your wrinkles ?
toodle-pip
pk