Born on October 15th 1881 in Guildford Surrey Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse spent his school years at Dulwich College where he was very happy and to where he remained devoted for the rest of his life. Initially working as a bank clerk he was unhappy and turned to writing in his spare time to alleviate his boredom. Though his first stories focused on school life Wodehouse soon turned to comic fiction and created several characters that became well known to the public including ‘the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves’.
Considered one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century here are 10 Spiffingly Good Quotes from P.G Wodehouse.
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
“He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
“It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
“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.”
“Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
“She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say “when”. “
“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”
“Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.”
“I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.”
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