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Quote of the Day: P. G. Wodehouse
Here’s something lighter than my general fare.
Published in Group Writing“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”
Great quote. I’ve been to movies like that, too.
Fantastic. Better stop there. P.G. might be reading, and timing me.
I seem to recall Heinlein wielding some pithy quotes about writing being essentially an antisocial activity. I would be glad to think there’s an evil conspiracy of book writers somewhere; maybe someone will send me the password.
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
We could probably do a month’s worth of our favorite lines from P.G. Wodehouse.
Have you proven yourself evil enough?
I love Wodehouse. Thanks for sharing this, Richard. If you don’t mind me calling you Richard…
One woman on Twitter thinks I’m the devil, so I’m happy to be called Richard.
“She looked as if she had been poured into her dress and somebody forgot to say ‘when”.
The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say “When!”
I’m not sure those things are mutually exclusive.
In that case she might use one of the diminutives of Richard…
P G Wodehouse is one of my very favorite authors. Full Size Tabby is right (comment #5 above) – at least a month’s worth of his quotes…
This also reminded me of the following which has been attributed to A Bierce: “The covers of this book are too far apart.” And this one:
Moses Hadas, after a rival sent him a copy of their book: “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.” (Also, – “This book fills a much-needed gap.”)
Few people can loft and land a story with the seemingly effortless control Wodehouse had.
We should pile the quotes here, for mutual delight. I’ll go with The f. of the s. is more d. than the m.
Great quote, Richard. The applications are endless!
well played
That’s one of my favorite Wodehousianisms. As a struggling, yet aspiring, novelist, I hope one day to be that woman.
BTW, if there are other Wodehouse fans here, consider a trip to Cincinnati in the fall for the biennial convention of The Wodehouse Society. It’s good fun—no chin-pulling dissections of the master—which could only be made better by an influx of conservative fans. (For whatever reason, the fandom skews left.) Check it out: http://www.wodehouse.org/
I forget which conductor wrote to a reviewer: “I am sitting in the smallest room in the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.”
That’s why I’ve been reading him for more than thirty-five years.
I was a slow reader too, until I heard about CBD Oil. @drbastiat sold me a pallet of it that he happened to see while driving around town in his forklift truck–it was just sitting by the back entry door of a pharmacy owned by a friend of his! He also made me a Regional Distributor, and gave me a 5% discount on it, if I sign up just 14 Zone Distributors in the next month.
You totally have to try it. It also gives you pep in your step, cures hairy back, and prevents death.
Right? And my rhododendrons have never looked healthier!
“It even cures pinkeye.”