To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
Routine is the death to heroism.
— P. G. Wodehouse
Inspirational
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.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' (quoting John Greenleaf Whittier)
"Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary," murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words "Elementary, my dear Watson" has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)
— P. G. Wodehouse
Literature
"Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it."
So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever.
The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.
‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
— P. G. Wodehouse
Humorous