Psmith's Quotes

#1. We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. [I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts to drop dead.

Paul Samuelson

#4. The first thing to do,' said Psmith, 'is to ascertain that such a place as Clapham Common really exists. One has heard of it, of course, but has its existence ever been proved? I think not.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. Some time ago," he said, "
how long it seems!
I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. The brightest star on a cloudless night
Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky ...
Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind
There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes

Dave Matthews

#8. For a moment ... I might have been the daughter she'd hoped for ... she might have been my teacher and my guide ... We might never have been enemies at all.

Naomi Novik

#9. 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 as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

Zach Galligan

#11. I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Murray Gell-Mann

#12. Mere surprise, however, was never enough to prevent Psmith talking. He

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. homie I'm graduated

Kanye West

#14. Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Annette Funicello

#15. Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things that mean things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.

P.G. Wodehouse

#17. Oh, is that my report, father?' said Mike, with a sort of sickly interest, much as a dog about to be washed might evince in his tub.'
- Mike and Psmith

P.G. Wodehouse

#18. [On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.

Elsa Einstein

#19. I am Psmith. I sub-edit.

P.G. Wodehouse