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P. G. Wodehouse [1881-1975] English

Rank: 101
Writer, Author

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life.

Funny, Sports, Alone, Best, Gardening, Good, Knowledge, Medical, Success

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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.	Funny, Sports	101
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.	Funny	102
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.		103
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.	Good	104
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.	Success	105
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.	Best, Funny	106
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.		107
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.		108
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.	Alone, Knowledge	109
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.		110
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.		111
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'		112
Flowers are happy things.	Gardening	113
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.		114
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.	Sports	115
Golf, like measles, should be caught young.		116
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.		117
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.		118
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.		119
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.		120
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.		121
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.	Medical	122
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.		123

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