...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The New Testament states that man cannot serve two masters. He must choose one -God, and not the other - money. For what man chooses will reveal his heart.

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.