Occupation: Writer Birth: October 15, 1881 Death: February 14, 1975
It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time..
I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words….
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted….
A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots..
When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope..
Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve..
The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed..
Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and int….
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character..
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 w….
I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, ….
He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the….
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 locke….
Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache..
As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt..
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled..
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 prett….
...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had falle….
There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie..
I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on,….
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink..