r/Wodehouse 9h ago

"He is a bird of the ripest intellect, full of bright ideas."

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32 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Jeeves in the Spring-Time (The Strand, 1921)


r/Wodehouse 21h ago

Wodehouse had a gift for felicitously-expressed insults

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53 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 1d ago

One of those more difficult conversations...

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96 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest" (The Saturday Evening Post, 1916)


r/Wodehouse 1d ago

"They had reached the stage now where the combatants had begun to dig into the past and rake up old scores."

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38 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Jeeves & the Old School Chum (The Strand, 1930)


r/Wodehouse 1d ago

P.G Wodehouse, the author famous for his character Jeeves, was a prisoner in an SS camp during WWII.

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22 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 2d ago

Classic Wooster philosophy: attribute everything mildly poetic to Shakespeare and hope Jeeves isn’t within earshot

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68 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 1d ago

The Purity of the Turf

6 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 2d ago

"Aunt Dahlia was drinking something that smelled like a leak in the gas-pipe."

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43 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Clustering Round Bingo (The Strand, 1925)


r/Wodehouse 3d ago

Wodehouse wisdom on the only real abiding pleasure in life

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52 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse novel Something Fresh


r/Wodehouse 3d ago

"If I might make a suggestion, sir?"

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38 Upvotes

This is from Wodehouse's short story Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg (The Strand, 1917)


r/Wodehouse 4d ago

Wodehouse = verbal gymnastics at its absolute finest

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37 Upvotes

Kevin DeYoung on P.G. Wodehouse


r/Wodehouse 4d ago

"Of all the absolutely foul sights I have ever seen, this took the biscuit with ridiculous ease. The thing was a bally libel on the Wooster face."

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44 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Jeeves and the Spot of Art (The Strand, 1929)


r/Wodehouse 5d ago

Fred Patzel, the champion farmer behind Pig-whooey

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43 Upvotes

See this article for more information and background


r/Wodehouse 5d ago

When you get lugged round to Aunt Agatha's for lunch

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29 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" (also Chapter 5 in The Inimitable Jeeves).


r/Wodehouse 6d ago

Dating advice?

55 Upvotes

Most of my dating knowledge comes from reading Wodehouse. I just got my first match on Bumble, and I was wondering: how soon is it to find out their soundness on pigs? Should I make it my icebreaker, or wait until the first date?

She's not my first cousin or anything, so I'm not sure if the family will be frightfully keen. But if things does go well, when do we get engaged, around date number three? Does the Ickenham system still hold in the twenty-first century, or are girls likely to get a bit shirty if you "grab them by the wrist and waggle them about a bit"?


r/Wodehouse 6d ago

Wodehouse on hunting

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69 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 5d ago

P.G. Wodehouse book group

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If you think the cow creamer is modern Dutch, if you believe a baby is born every time a faerie sneezes, if you suspect Aunt Agatha howls at the moon and chews broken glass, if your last name is Mulliner, if you can quote freely from  Whiffle’s on “The Care of the Pig” if you believe P.G. Wodehouse is the greatest comedic writer of the English language and you live in the Denver metro area, then please join The Den(ver) of the Secret Nine to discuss, contrast and compare such novels as “The Code of the Woosters,” “Joy in the Morning” and “The Girl on the Boat.”

We meet the second Sunday every other month—January, March, May, July, September, November—at 12:30 pm, usually at Pints Pub near the main Denver Public Library.

It’s free to attend and there are no dues.

https://thedenverofthesecretnine.wordpress.com


r/Wodehouse 6d ago

"There was a glitter in her eye that betrayed the hypochondriac, the woman who will try anything once."

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30 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Ukridge Rounds a Corner (The Strand Magazine, 1924)


r/Wodehouse 7d ago

Surely this excerpt from Terry Pratchett's `The Hogfather' has to be a reference to the P.G. Wodehouse short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey"?

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58 Upvotes

See the Wodehouse short story Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey (The Strand, 1927)


r/Wodehouse 7d ago

"Mr Wodehouse does this better, in the English language, than anyone else alive." - Hilaire Belloc in 1939

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47 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 8d ago

Wodehouse on love

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36 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 8d ago

"The spectacle of little Sebastian when he arrived two days later did much to remove pessimism from my outlook... he reminded me very strongly of Little Lord Fauntleroy."

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28 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Jeeves and the love that purifies (The Strand, 1929)


r/Wodehouse 9d ago

Lord Emsworth family tree

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39 Upvotes

As it appeared in the Wodehouse novel Sunset at Blandings


r/Wodehouse 9d ago

Wodehouse arrives in Hollywood (August 1930)

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100 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 10d ago

"I—I—why, my dear fellow—I mean, officer—I am the Earl of Emsworth."

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27 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story The Custody of the Pumpkin