_Bertie, attempting to counsel his oldest friend Bingo Little:_ **Bertie:** "Bingo, old fruit, you can't keep falling in love with a different girl every two weeks." — The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_On the wisdom of apologies:_ "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." — Narrator, The Man Upstairs (1914) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_Bertie, reflecting on a romantic entanglement that was not going as hoped:_ "The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number." — Bertie, Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"He sprang to his feet with the agility of a man of sixty-five who has been stung by a wasp." — Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"He looked like a sheep with a secret sorrow." — The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_On Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham:_ "Uncle Fred was a man who went about the world scattering light-heartedness as a dog scatters fleas." — Narrator, Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"The laughs, which had started well, faded like a bugle call in a distant wood." — Carry On, Jeeves (1925) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"He wore the expression of a man who has just discovered that a loved one has been at the whisky." — The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

Bertie, reflecting on his valet with the wisdom of hard-won experience: "Jeeves is always right. This is not a conclusion I have reached lightly. It is the fruit of long and frequently painful experience." — Bertie, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

**Bertie** "Aunt Dahlia is the one aunt I can put up with. She hunts — or did when younger — and the effect of a life in the saddle has given her a carrying sort of voice that can be heard from a considerable distance." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

**Narrator** "Lord Emsworth is at his best in the company of pigs. Among human beings he achieves only a sort of wandering contentment; with the Empress of Blandings at his side he attains true serenity." — Summer Lightning (1929) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_Bertie, softening up the resistance before presenting his plan:_ **Bertie:** "Jeeves, I want you to approach this matter with an open mind." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_After Bertie presents what he considers a perfectly sound scheme:_ **Aunt Dahlia:** "Bertie, you are an ass." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_On Roderick Spode and his side venture into fashion:_ "You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's hats. One or the other. Both is out." — Narrator, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_On the subject of ageing gracefully:_ "There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine." — Narrator, The Old Reliable (1951) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"She sagged. Not much, but perceptibly — like a leaky tyre." — Thank You, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"He looked like a sheep with a secret sorrow." — The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_The Hon. Galahad Threepwood, on the practical advantages of imprecision:_ "I have found in life that a little inexactitude saves a world of explanation." — Galahad Threepwood, Summer Lightning (1929) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"Like so many substantial Americans, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag." — Summer Moonshine (1937) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"She looked at me as if I were some sort of strange insect that had crawled out from under a flat stone." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

Bertie, surveying the wreckage of his latest scheme: "I could see that Fate had been getting the short end of it from the start and was in no mood to make allowances for human frailty." — Bertie, Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

**Narrator** "Gussie Fink-Nottle was a man who devoted his life to the study of the newt in all its facets and ramifications." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

**Bertie** "Madeleine Bassett held the view that the stars were God's daisy chain, and cried when she saw a dead kitten. I had never met anyone like her before, and felt I could readily get on without meeting anyone like her again." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_On being asked to resolve a situation entirely of his own making:_ **Bertie:** "Jeeves, I have an idea." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"He moved through the crowd with the easy grace of a carthorse making its way through a field of standing corn." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"The laughs, which had started well, faded like a bugle call in a distant wood." — Carry On, Jeeves (1925) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_Wodehouse, asked to describe his writing process:_ "I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit." — Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Performing Flea (1953) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_On Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham:_ "Uncle Fred was a man who went about the world scattering light-heartedness as a dog scatters fleas." — Narrator, Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine." — Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"He had the look of one who has drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom." — The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit