{"author":"P.G. Wodehouse","author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse","total_quotes":147,"quotes":[{"text":"It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["anger","fearsomeness","fury","humor"],"id":2281,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["hilarious"],"id":4413,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["humor","new-york-city","temptation"],"id":4511,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["humor","misery","moroseness","subconscious"],"id":6434,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"I always advise people never to give advice.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["advice"],"id":7428,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"My Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman's paper called Milady's Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise to write her a few words for her 'Husbands and Brothers' page on 'What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing'. I believe in encouraging aunts, when deserving; and, as there are many worse eggs than her knocking about the metrop, I had consented blithely. But I give you my honest word that if I had had the foggiest notion of what I was letting myself in for, not even a nephew's devotion would have kept me from giving her the raspberry. A deuce of a job it had been, taxing the physique to the utmost. I don't wonder now that all these author blokes have bald heads and faces like birds who have suffered.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["humor","writing"],"id":8462,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["french","grey-hair","guillotine","humor","old-age"],"id":12193,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["depression","humor","melancholy","wit"],"id":14789,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"...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 from the best motives. There is one born every minute.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["humorous","insightful"],"id":20420,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster).","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["humour"],"id":23986,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":147,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}