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

"She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season." — The Mating Season (1949) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

Bertie, on the formative years: "The only reason I went to school was to improve my mind, but I am bound to confess that the process took a good deal of time." — Bertie, Very Good, Jeeves (1930) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

On sympathy: "I was so darned sorry for poor old Corky that I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself." — Bertie, Carry On, Jeeves (1925) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

**Bertie** "Aunt Agatha is not a woman who is lightly thwarted." — The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) #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

_On whether sartorial standards may be relaxed during a crisis:_ **Bertie:** "Jeeves, what do ties matter at a time like this?" — The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

_Bertie, mid-crisis, seeking some form of moral support:_ **Bertie:** "Jeeves, I have a feeling that Fate is against me." — The Mating Season (1949) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"She looked at me the way my Aunt Agatha looks at a caterpillar she has found in her head of lettuce." — The Mating Season (1949) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

"She entered the room in the manner of one who has just received a nasty letter from the income-tax authorities." — Jeeves in the Offing (1960) #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

_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

"She entered the room in the manner of one who has just received a nasty letter from the income-tax authorities." — Jeeves in the Offing (1960) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit