"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

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

_PG Wodehouse, on the subject of advice:_ "I always advise people never to give advice." — Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Performing Flea (1953) #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

"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

"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

On becoming engaged, again: "It is a curious thing about engagements. They come upon you suddenly, and before you know it you are in the soup." — Bertie, The Code of the Woosters (1938) #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

**Narrator** "Lord Emsworth's attention had been riveted, from the very first moment, on the Empress of Blandings. She was looking even more rotund and beautiful than ever." — Summer Lightning (1929) #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