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  1. A quotation from Wodehouse

       “So, Jeeves!”
       “Yes, sir.”
       “What do you mean, Yes, sir?”
       “I was endeavouring to convey my appreciation of the fact that your position is in many respects somewhat difficult, sir. But I wonder if I might call your attention to an observation of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He said: ‘Does aught befall you? It is good. It is part of the destiny of the Universe ordained for you from the beginning. All that befalls you is part of the great web.'”
       I breathed a bit stertorously.
       “He said that, did he?”
       “Yes, sir.”
       “Well, you can tell him from me he’s an ass.”

    P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) Anglo-American humorist, playwright and lyricist [Pelham Grenville Wodehouse]
    The Mating Season, ch. 4 (1949)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wodehouse-p-g/46199/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wodehouse #pgwodehouse #marcusaurelius #jeeves #wooster #acceptance #advice #destiny #fate #foreordainment #nature #stoicism #trouble #universe

  2. A quotation from Wodehouse

       “So, Jeeves!”
       “Yes, sir.”
       “What do you mean, Yes, sir?”
       “I was endeavouring to convey my appreciation of the fact that your position is in many respects somewhat difficult, sir. But I wonder if I might call your attention to an observation of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He said: ‘Does aught befall you? It is good. It is part of the destiny of the Universe ordained for you from the beginning. All that befalls you is part of the great web.'”
       I breathed a bit stertorously.
       “He said that, did he?”
       “Yes, sir.”
       “Well, you can tell him from me he’s an ass.”

    P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) Anglo-American humorist, playwright and lyricist [Pelham Grenville Wodehouse]
    The Mating Season, ch. 4 (1949)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wodehouse-p-g/46199/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wodehouse #pgwodehouse #marcusaurelius #jeeves #wooster #acceptance #advice #destiny #fate #foreordainment #nature #stoicism #trouble #universe

  3. A quotation from Wodehouse

       “So, Jeeves!”
       “Yes, sir.”
       “What do you mean, Yes, sir?”
       “I was endeavouring to convey my appreciation of the fact that your position is in many respects somewhat difficult, sir. But I wonder if I might call your attention to an observation of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He said: ‘Does aught befall you? It is good. It is part of the destiny of the Universe ordained for you from the beginning. All that befalls you is part of the great web.'”
       I breathed a bit stertorously.
       “He said that, did he?”
       “Yes, sir.”
       “Well, you can tell him from me he’s an ass.”

    P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) Anglo-American humorist, playwright and lyricist [Pelham Grenville Wodehouse]
    The Mating Season, ch. 4 (1949)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wodehouse-p-g/46199/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wodehouse #pgwodehouse #marcusaurelius #jeeves #wooster #acceptance #advice #destiny #fate #foreordainment #nature #stoicism #trouble #universe

  4. A quotation from Wodehouse

       “So, Jeeves!”
       “Yes, sir.”
       “What do you mean, Yes, sir?”
       “I was endeavouring to convey my appreciation of the fact that your position is in many respects somewhat difficult, sir. But I wonder if I might call your attention to an observation of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He said: ‘Does aught befall you? It is good. It is part of the destiny of the Universe ordained for you from the beginning. All that befalls you is part of the great web.'”
       I breathed a bit stertorously.
       “He said that, did he?”
       “Yes, sir.”
       “Well, you can tell him from me he’s an ass.”

    P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) Anglo-American humorist, playwright and lyricist [Pelham Grenville Wodehouse]
    The Mating Season, ch. 4 (1949)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wodehouse-p-g/46199/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wodehouse #pgwodehouse #marcusaurelius #jeeves #wooster #acceptance #advice #destiny #fate #foreordainment #nature #stoicism #trouble #universe

  5. "Have you seen the river?"
    "No."
    "It lies at the bottom of the garden. Except during the winter months, when – they tell me – the garden lies at the bottom of the river."

    from Doctor Sally by P. G. Wodehouse
    #Wodehouse #winter #garden

  6. "Have you seen the river?"
    "No."
    "It lies at the bottom of the garden. Except during the winter months, when – they tell me – the garden lies at the bottom of the river."

    from Doctor Sally by P. G. Wodehouse
    #Wodehouse #winter #garden

  7. P. G. Wodehouse on nightclubs:
    "A sound like the sudden descent of an iron girder on a sheet of tin, followed by a jangling of bells, a wailing of tortured cats, and the noise of a few steam-riveters at work, announced to their trained ears that the music had begun. Sweeping her to him with a violence which, attempted in any other place, would have earned him a sentence of thirty days coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench, Lancelot began to push her yielding form through the sea of humanity till they reached the centre of the whirlpool. There, unable to move in any direction, they surrendered themselves to the ecstasy of the dance, wiping their feet on the polished flooring and occasionally pushing an elbow into some stranger's encroaching rib."
    Came the Dawn, from Meet Mr. Mulliner
    #Wodehouse #PGWodehouse #clubbing

  8. P. G. Wodehouse on nightclubs:
    "A sound like the sudden descent of an iron girder on a sheet of tin, followed by a jangling of bells, a wailing of tortured cats, and the noise of a few steam-riveters at work, announced to their trained ears that the music had begun. Sweeping her to him with a violence which, attempted in any other place, would have earned him a sentence of thirty days coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench, Lancelot began to push her yielding form through the sea of humanity till they reached the centre of the whirlpool. There, unable to move in any direction, they surrendered themselves to the ecstasy of the dance, wiping their feet on the polished flooring and occasionally pushing an elbow into some stranger's encroaching rib."
    Came the Dawn, from Meet Mr. Mulliner
    #Wodehouse #PGWodehouse #clubbing

  9. "I read an interesting thing in the paper the other day," said Lord Tidmouth. "It appears that the sardine's worst enemy is the halibut, and I give you my word that until I read it I didn't know the sardine *had* an enemy. And I don't mind telling you that my opinion of the halibut has gone down considerably. Very considerably. Fancy anything wanting to bully a sardine."

    P. G. Wodehouse, Doctor Sally
    #Wodehouse #fish

  10. "I read an interesting thing in the paper the other day," said Lord Tidmouth. "It appears that the sardine's worst enemy is the halibut, and I give you my word that until I read it I didn't know the sardine *had* an enemy. And I don't mind telling you that my opinion of the halibut has gone down considerably. Very considerably. Fancy anything wanting to bully a sardine."

    P. G. Wodehouse, Doctor Sally
    #Wodehouse #fish

  11. I added a sorted words puzzle and a shuffled pages #puzzle to my Book Blender collection of #WordGames. They are two stories by P. G. #Wodehouse - "The Alarming Spread of Poetry" is a dire warning of slightly lower stakes than your typical dire warning (940 words). Is "Jeeves and Wooster" a romcom? The other puzzle is based on "The Man Upstairs", a more standard romcom from the same author (29 pages).

    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend
    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend
    #ShortFiction #Fun

  12. I added a sorted words puzzle and a shuffled pages #puzzle to my Book Blender collection of #WordGames. They are two stories by P. G. #Wodehouse - "The Alarming Spread of Poetry" is a dire warning of slightly lower stakes than your typical dire warning (940 words). Is "Jeeves and Wooster" a romcom? The other puzzle is based on "The Man Upstairs", a more standard romcom from the same author (29 pages).

    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend
    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend
    #ShortFiction #Fun

  13. I added a sorted words puzzle and a shuffled pages to my Book Blender collection of . They are two stories by P. G. - "The Alarming Spread of Poetry" is a dire warning of slightly lower stakes than your typical dire warning (940 words). Is "Jeeves and Wooster" a romcom? The other puzzle is based on "The Man Upstairs", a more standard romcom from the same author (29 pages).

    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend
    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend

  14. I added a sorted words puzzle and a shuffled pages #puzzle to my Book Blender collection of #WordGames. They are two stories by P. G. #Wodehouse - "The Alarming Spread of Poetry" is a dire warning of slightly lower stakes than your typical dire warning (940 words). Is "Jeeves and Wooster" a romcom? The other puzzle is based on "The Man Upstairs", a more standard romcom from the same author (29 pages).

    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend
    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend
    #ShortFiction #Fun

  15. I added a sorted words puzzle and a shuffled pages #puzzle to my Book Blender collection of #WordGames. They are two stories by P. G. #Wodehouse - "The Alarming Spread of Poetry" is a dire warning of slightly lower stakes than your typical dire warning (940 words). Is "Jeeves and Wooster" a romcom? The other puzzle is based on "The Man Upstairs", a more standard romcom from the same author (29 pages).

    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend
    donkirkby.github.io/book-blend
    #ShortFiction #Fun

  16. "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

  17. "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

  18. "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

  19. "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

  20. "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

  21. "The laughs, which had started well, faded like a bugle call in a distant wood."

    — Carry On, Jeeves (1925)

    #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

  22. "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

  23. "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

  24. "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

  25. "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

  26. "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

  27. "He looked like a sheep with a secret sorrow."

    — The Code of the Woosters (1938)

    #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit

  28. As I re-read “Leave it to Psmith”, I’m realizing for the first time that The Efficient Baxter is basically Malvolio from “Twelfth Night”. Wodehouse has to have done that on purpose, right? He was well-educated, he would have known one of the great comedic put-upon characters of Shakespeare.

    #wodehouse

  29. As I re-read “Leave it to Psmith”, I’m realizing for the first time that The Efficient Baxter is basically Malvolio from “Twelfth Night”. Wodehouse has to have done that on purpose, right? He was well-educated, he would have known one of the great comedic put-upon characters of Shakespeare.

    #wodehouse

  30. As I re-read “Leave it to Psmith”, I’m realizing for the first time that The Efficient Baxter is basically Malvolio from “Twelfth Night”. Wodehouse has to have done that on purpose, right? He was well-educated, he would have known one of the great comedic put-upon characters of Shakespeare.

    #wodehouse

  31. As I re-read “Leave it to Psmith”, I’m realizing for the first time that The Efficient Baxter is basically Malvolio from “Twelfth Night”. Wodehouse has to have done that on purpose, right? He was well-educated, he would have known one of the great comedic put-upon characters of Shakespeare.

    #wodehouse

  32. Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.

    It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.

    #books #wodehouse

  33. Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.

    It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.

    #books #wodehouse

  34. Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.

    It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.

    #books #wodehouse

  35. Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.

    It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.

    #books #wodehouse

  36. Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.

    It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.

    #books #wodehouse

  37. I’m embarrassed to say, that while reading my Wodehouse novel I had to look up the reference made to Pierpont Morgan.

    Apparently it’s John Pierpont Morgan, American rich person.

    Now that I think of it, I have heard of JP Morgan, I think I owe his descendants money.

    #Reading #Wodehouse #PigsHaveWings

  38. I’m embarrassed to say, that while reading my Wodehouse novel I had to look up the reference made to Pierpont Morgan.

    Apparently it’s John Pierpont Morgan, American rich person.

    Now that I think of it, I have heard of JP Morgan, I think I owe his descendants money.

    #Reading #Wodehouse #PigsHaveWings

  39. I’m embarrassed to say, that while reading my Wodehouse novel I had to look up the reference made to Pierpont Morgan.

    Apparently it’s John Pierpont Morgan, American rich person.

    Now that I think of it, I have heard of JP Morgan, I think I owe his descendants money.

    #Reading #Wodehouse #PigsHaveWings

  40. I’m embarrassed to say, that while reading my Wodehouse novel I had to look up the reference made to Pierpont Morgan.

    Apparently it’s John Pierpont Morgan, American rich person.

    Now that I think of it, I have heard of JP Morgan, I think I owe his descendants money.

    #Reading #Wodehouse #PigsHaveWings

  41. I’m embarrassed to say, that while reading my Wodehouse novel I had to look up the reference made to Pierpont Morgan.

    Apparently it’s John Pierpont Morgan, American rich person.

    Now that I think of it, I have heard of JP Morgan, I think I owe his descendants money.

    #Reading #Wodehouse #PigsHaveWings

  42. This morning , my spouse pulled out a dark blue handkerchief, entirely new to me. “Where did you get a dark blue handkerchief?” He immediately replied, “The Anti-Jeeves Society.”

    Fair.
    #Wodehouse #Jeeves

  43. "As the fellow said, better a dinner of herbs when you're all buddies together than a regular blowout when you're not"
    Proverbs 15:17, Wodehouse version
    (The Code of the Woosters)
    #Proverbs #Bible #Wodehouse #BertieWooster

  44. "As the fellow said, better a dinner of herbs when you're all buddies together than a regular blowout when you're not"
    Proverbs 15:17, Wodehouse version
    (The Code of the Woosters)
    #Proverbs #Bible #Wodehouse #BertieWooster

  45. 'I eyed her sternly.
    "Aunt Dahlia, this is blackmail!"
    "Yes, isn't it?" she said, and beetled off.'

    P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    #Wodehouse #BertieWooster #aunts #blackmail

  46. 'I eyed her sternly.
    "Aunt Dahlia, this is blackmail!"
    "Yes, isn't it?" she said, and beetled off.'

    P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    #Wodehouse #BertieWooster #aunts #blackmail

  47. My Pop used to go on and on about Jeeves, especially when things were going sideways. It would cheer him and I never had any idea what he was talking about or why he was laughing when things were bad. So here I am , forty years after his death, reading P. G. Wodehouse and finally understanding my father. #reading #book #Wodehouse

  48. My Pop used to go on and on about Jeeves, especially when things were going sideways. It would cheer him and I never had any idea what he was talking about or why he was laughing when things were bad. So here I am , forty years after his death, reading P. G. Wodehouse and finally understanding my father. #reading #book #Wodehouse

  49. My Pop used to go on and on about Jeeves, especially when things were going sideways. It would cheer him and I never had any idea what he was talking about or why he was laughing when things were bad. So here I am , forty years after his death, reading P. G. Wodehouse and finally understanding my father. #reading #book #Wodehouse

  50. My Pop used to go on and on about Jeeves, especially when things were going sideways. It would cheer him and I never had any idea what he was talking about or why he was laughing when things were bad. So here I am , forty years after his death, reading P. G. Wodehouse and finally understanding my father. #reading #book #Wodehouse

  51. My Pop used to go on and on about Jeeves, especially when things were going sideways. It would cheer him and I never had any idea what he was talking about or why he was laughing when things were bad. So here I am , forty years after his death, reading P. G. Wodehouse and finally understanding my father. #reading #book #Wodehouse

  52. I just finished Full Moon and read a review at #TheStoryGraph in which the reviewer apologetically said they preferred Blandings to Wooster. Were it possible to have replied, I'd have said "no apology needed, so do I" PGW is sui generis - or as Clarence might say of the Empress's size "sooey generous" #bookstodon #Reading #Wodehouse
    @bookstodon

  53. I just finished Full Moon and read a review at #TheStoryGraph in which the reviewer apologetically said they preferred Blandings to Wooster. Were it possible to have replied, I'd have said "no apology needed, so do I" PGW is sui generis - or as Clarence might say of the Empress's size "sooey generous" #bookstodon #Reading #Wodehouse
    @bookstodon

  54. I just finished Full Moon and read a review at #TheStoryGraph in which the reviewer apologetically said they preferred Blandings to Wooster. Were it possible to have replied, I'd have said "no apology needed, so do I" PGW is sui generis - or as Clarence might say of the Empress's size "sooey generous" #bookstodon #Reading #Wodehouse
    @bookstodon

  55. I just finished Full Moon and read a review at in which the reviewer apologetically said they preferred Blandings to Wooster. Were it possible to have replied, I'd have said "no apology needed, so do I" PGW is sui generis - or as Clarence might say of the Empress's size "sooey generous"
    @bookstodon

  56. I just finished Full Moon and read a review at #TheStoryGraph in which the reviewer apologetically said they preferred Blandings to Wooster. Were it possible to have replied, I'd have said "no apology needed, so do I" PGW is sui generis - or as Clarence might say of the Empress's size "sooey generous" #bookstodon #Reading #Wodehouse
    @bookstodon