Call all Fascists "Spodes."
#Wodehouse

Call all Fascists "Spodes."
#Wodehouse
"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
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, 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
**Bertie** "Aunt Dahlia is the one decent aunt left to me — a large, hearty woman who hunts and shoots and is a bit free with the language but fundamentally sound." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
**Bertie** "Tuppy Glossop is the sort of chap who, given a delicate situation, can be relied upon to select the most injurious course of action available and pursue it with enthusiasm." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
_Aunt Agatha, delivering her annual assessment of Bertie's character:_ **Aunt Agatha:** "Bertie, you are a fathead. An incredible ass." — The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
What ho, Wednesday! Now for something less text based from the archive at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social - a picture of Plum smoking his infamous pipe. His thoughts seem to be in the Highlands but they don't look like stinkers. #wodehouse
_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 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
_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
"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
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"She sagged. Not much, but perceptibly — like a leaky tyre." — Thank You, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
_PG Wodehouse, on the subject of advice:_ "I always advise people never to give advice." — Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Performing Flea (1953) #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
"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
On Aunts: "My Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth." — Bertie, The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) #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** "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