Happy Birthday to P.G. Wodehouse, whose writing made the world an immeasurably brighter place.
Born 15 October 1881. #PGWodehouse

**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
Happy Birthday to P.G. Wodehouse, whose writing made the world an immeasurably brighter place.
Born 15 October 1881. #PGWodehouse
Happy Birthday P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) 15 Oct 1881 - 14 Feb 1975
“What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don’t you know, if you see what I mean.”
"I always advise people never to give advice."
✒ #PGWodehouse, English novelist (Jeeves and Wooster), short story writer, and playwright, was #BOTD 15 October 1881. #Comedy #Theatre #Literature
_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
_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
_Bertie, assessing the emotional weather at Totleigh Towers:_ "I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." — Bertie, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #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
"He looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when'." — Very Good, Jeeves (1930) #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
_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
_On the basis of true friendship:_ "There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature." — Narrator, The Adventures of Sally (1922) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
"She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #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
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
On the matter of field sports: "The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun." — Narrator, The Adventures of Sally (1922) #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
**Bertie** "Gussie Fink-Nottle is a man who, having devoted his life to the study of the newt, has not always found the social graces coming naturally." — Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
_Bertie, emerging unscathed from yet another entanglement:_ **Bertie:** "Jeeves, what would I do without you?" — Thank You, Jeeves (1934) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
_Bertie, assessing the emotional weather at Totleigh Towers:_ "I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." — Bertie, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit