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goufpeera2: The White Feather by P. G. Wodehouse - Audiobook

TheEicb: P. G. Wodehouse discussing Jeeves and Wooster (1960s Interview)

shortthoughts: 4 of 5 stars to Jeeves in the Offing by P.G. Wodehouse

CircumEvidence: Proof by reference to P. G. Wodehouse

truefactsbot: My dad has ceased to exist?' - P.G. WODEHOUSE, 1945

ClarkeMicah: Now I have P.G. Wodehouse *and* C.S.Lewis on my side, I cannot lose the fight to restore year-round GMT. Did Philip Larkin, George Orwell or W.H.Auden ever mention it, does anyone know?

rbawri: P G Wodehouse is unquestionably the most articulate writers in the English. His ability to express in a single word that most can't in paragraphs is legendary. He was an inspiration while writing my book The Amazing Health Transformation.

leopercer: "Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred." P. G. Wodehouse

leopercer: "Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove." P. G. Wodehouse

weakerthansbot: Got an armchair from your family home Got your P.G. Wodehouse novels and your telephone Got your plates and stainless steel Got that way of never saying what you really feel so Anchorless A boat abandoned in some backyard

authormadhulika: Marked as to-read: Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse

Christine022010: “The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.” — P.G. Wodehouse KDLEX TWOgether IN JAPAN

Greebohobbes: Florence (left) glaring at Bertie (right) for failing to steal his uncle's memoirs 1923 Strand Magazine illustration by A. Wallis Mills for the short story "Jeeves Takes Charge" by P. G. Wodehouse, featuring the characters Florence Craye, Sir Willoughby, and Bertie Wooster.

timwalker919: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, Luck of the Bodkins

Greebohobbes: An illustration by Reginald Cleaver for P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Ukridge's Dog College" in the Strand Magazine, May 1923.

Greebohobbes: An illustration by T. D. Skidmore for P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Ukridge's Accident Syndicate" in Cosmopolitan, May 1923.

ityojordan: "Elementary, my dear Watson" - P. G. Wodehouse

Greebohobbes: An illustration by T. M. R. Whitwell of the fictional character Mike Jackson playing cricket in P. G. Wodehouse's story Jackson Junior, published in the UK magazine The Captain.

goufpeera2: Leave it to PSmith by P. G. Wodehouse - Audiobook

unhappygh0st: When I see lovers' names carved on trees, I don't think it's sweet. I only wonder how many people bring a knife on a date ― P.G. Wodehouse

Greebohobbes: An illustration by Alfred Leete for the Reggie Pepper short story "Concealed Art", written by P. G. Wodehouse. The story was published with Leete's illustrations in The Strand Magazine in February 1915.

NoJesuitTricks: Few things are more fun for readers and writers alike than a good metaphor (or simile). This is one reason I love reading P.G. Wodehouse. He was the master of the comic metaphor, the sultan of the silly simile. Here are a few plucked from his writings at random:

AlStewartOBE: Booster Jabs sounds like a minor character created by P.G.Wodehouse.

MeritzPress: He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. -P.G. Wodehouse

dtheedom: Listening to a podcast about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was initially pressured to marry someone named Clotworthy Skeffington. Sounds like a character from a P.G. Wodehouse novel.

unhappygh0st: A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

unhappygh0st: It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused him to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. ― P.G. Wodehouse, Ring for Jeeves, 1953

unhappygh0st: I always advise people never to give advice. ― P.G. Wodehouse

unhappygh0st: She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say when. ― P.G. Wodehouse

MrBoffly: If you’re a member of the Senior Conservative, you can’t be a criminal ~ P G Wodehouse

truefactsbot: Getting drunk is moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, “Do trousers matter?”’ ‘The mood will pass, sir.’ P. G. WODEHOUSE

welfordwrites: A good bishop denouncing a book from the pulpit can add 15 to 20 thousand to the sales. P G Wodehouse

Brought2BookLtd: New! Very Good, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse First Edition Herbert Jenkins 1930. £2,500

walterhpierce2: This quote from P. G. Wodehouse I have put into my W) Management and Leadership category. To study more quote-posters from the topic of Management and Leadership go to:

MeowImageBot: To find a man's true character, play golf with him. - P. G. Wodehouse

unhappygh0st: He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. ― P.G. Wodehouse

unhappygh0st: I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters

KeotusAtNotion: Unlocking the Secrets to Exceptional Achievement: Stories of Talent, Tenacity, and Triumph: Introduction: What do Bill Gates, Lionel Messi, and P.G. Wodehouse have in common? They all reached the pinnacle of…

Tdr1nka: A lovely 'a stopped clock is right twice a day' moment from Andrew Marr. Worth it for the P.G. Wodehouse reference alone.

wtnosebleed: I wonder what P G Wodehouse would have made of a character like Boris Johnson. I suspect that he would not have been portrayed as a hero.

unhappygh0st: 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. ― P.G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

unhappygh0st: He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. ― P.G. Wodehouse

BrainfoodAudiob: The Inimitable Jeeves written by P.G. Wodehouse performed by BBC Full Cast Dramatisation, Michael Hordern and Richard Briers on CD (Abridged) - Brainfood Audiobooks UK

farnswj1: "I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments." - P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens

PropagandhiTron: I've got an armchair from your family home. Got your P. G. Wodehouse novels and your telephone.

JhtlMina: My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse [Audiobooks Unabridged] | Comedy | Humor

prolix_mr: "Jest with your equals." -P G Wodehouse

mpvine: “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.” ― P.G. Wodehouse

ibmmiller: Clearly the great P. G. Wodehouse fanfiction question that needs answer is: Georgiana Meadowes or Iona MacAuslan? :)

storasatan1: There's a mythical cocktail mentioned in P.G. Wodehouse's stories, called the May Queen, short for, "Tomorrow'll be of all the glad new year, the maddest, merriest day, for I'm to be queen of the May, mama, I'm to be queen of the May."

chris_navin: Tuesday Quotation-P.G. Wodehouse

Harsha_Sayings: Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love. ~ P.G. Wodehouse 30/n

rahab_ngure6: Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.,P. G. Wodehouse,Haircut, Why, You ,

RTFireflyEsq: 'Right ho! Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I'm going into the Park to do pastoral dances.' P. G. Wodehouse, from JEEVES IN SPRINGTIME

Catman_Rilea: John Gielgud in Leave it to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse (1981)

PropagandhiTron: I've got an armchair from your family home. Got your P. G. Wodehouse novels and your telephone.

lolu_adeniran: “I do not hate in the plural”- P.G. Wodehouse So simple, so deep.

ianshutters: Yes, the Australian Nazi transphobes are thoroughly vile and utterly inexcusable... but part of me looked at this picture and couldn't help thinking of P.G. Wodehouse's Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts movement. Let's try telling them we know all about Eulalie...

DuncanWatson8: One of the funniest (and most enjoyably eerie) novels you will ever read. A modern classic waiting to be discovered. It is also extremely well written, as if Anne Billson were channelling P. G. Wodehouse at his wittiest & M. R. James at his spookiest. What more could you ask for?

PatB90739861: First rule of effective Naziing. Don't pick a uniform...

BoylanRoger: “I go off the rails unless I stay all the time in a sort of artificial world of my own creation,” P.G. Wodehouse once confessed to a friend. Same here, P.G.

crankyuncle2: 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

mymomsbooks: Check out P.G. Wodehouse 1983 HC DJ 5 Complete Novels Return of Jeeves Bertie Wooster Se..

dissproportion: Confession: I was today years old when I realized P.G. Wodehouse and G.K. Chesterton were two different people. I always thought, “damn, that funny Jeeves writer is really smart, too!”

neovictorian23: Friends—if you’ve never read this, do. I think she’s making the Chesterton thing up as a cover, she actually conflated P.G. Wodehouse and H.G. Wells.

agneswickfields: what if i was a character in a p. g. wodehouse novel and my name was like moopsy tidbit and i was always begging my aunt eugenia for money and getting into scrapes with my pal fink

Casey5122dark: A little gem from the man whom Sean O'Casey called "the performing flea of English literature": "The least little thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows." [P. G. Wodehouse]

truefactsbot: Opened 30 years ago, the library houses and butlers, both of which have ceased to exist?' - P.G. WODEHOUSE

DurhamWASP: "Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words." P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

EADT24: A brand-new play based on the life of Jeeves author P.G. Wodehouse begins its run at the New Wolsey Theatre tonight – starring one of the original actors from the hit TV series.

ipswichstar24: A brand-new play based on the life of Jeeves author P.G. Wodehouse begins its run at the New Wolsey Theatre tonight – starring one of the original actors from the hit TV series.

HamptonTheatreC: Since 2014, HTC has been his artistic home, he has appeared in some 19 productions— including Holiday readings. Last summer he began a creative alliance with The Remsenburg Academy, presenting an “overstaged” reading of hometown playwright P.G. Wodehouse’s “The Play’s the Thing”.

Great_Metaphors: "He found speech, if you could call making a noise like a buffalo taking its foot out a swamp finding speech." Jeeves in the Offing by P.G. Wodehouse

MeritzPress: He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. -P.G. Wodehouse

Dave_Lifelines: I'm currently researching someone called Honoria Goodwin - and as a big P G Wodehouse fan, I can't stop accidentally calling her Honoria Glossop...

MartinRowson: ...until he answered "I think you'll find what you term 'the P G Wodehouse bollocks' has served me very well thus far!" At which point I...

MeowImageBot: To find a man's true character, play golf with him. - P. G. Wodehouse

recycledgiraffe: P.G. Wodehouse: “He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.”

HansQuote: “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.” ― P.G. Wodehouse

yuktii_darknian: “The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally STRIKING FOR MADDAMSIR S2

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DarrylK81890385: I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.,P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters,bad-mood, disgruntlement, humor,

FuzzyGrim6357: Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the air in the direction of her brother's head.,P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Lightning,humour,

EliteKurisu2425: I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.,P.G. Wodehouse,writing,

Phathe5349: Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.,P.G. Wodehouse,critics, drama,

CulturalDebris: “I have looked on Jeeves as a sort of guide, philosopher, and friend.” “Jeeves In the Springtime” P.G. Wodehouse, Strand Magazine, 1921 A.Wallis Mills, Illustrator

Spreamha5704: It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.,P.G. Wodehouse,humour, mothers, spats,

Delbert34684168: She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.,P.G. Wodehouse,dismissal, life, writing,

JMDReid: “[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of them." --P.G. Wodehouse

armadill2010: 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. (P. G. Wodehouse)

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AshRosa7972: Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.,P.G. Wodehouse,depression, humor,

Great_Metaphors: "A silence followed his departure, such as would have fallen had a coffin just been carried out." Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse

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