Who is P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( WOOD-howss; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls.

Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early nove...
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P. G. Wodehouse Poems

• The Haunted Tram
  Ghosts of The Towers, The Grange, The Court,
  Ghosts of the Castle Keep.
  Ghosts of the finicking, “high-life” sort
  Are growing a trifle cheap....
• Damon And Pythias: A Romance
  Since Earth was first created,
  Since Time began to fly,
  No friends were e'er so mated,
  So firm as JONES and I....

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P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

• Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
• If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
• At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

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