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- The broadcasts, in point of fact, are neither anti- nor pro-German, but just Wodehousian. He is a man singularly ill-fitted to live in a time of ideological conflict, having no feelings of hatred about anyone, and no very strong views about anything. ... I never heard him speak bitterly about anyone—not even about old friends who turned against him in distress. Such temperament does not make for good citizenship in the second half of the Twentieth Century. (en)
- For Mr Wodehouse there has been no fall of Man; no 'aboriginal calamity'. His characters have never tasted the forbidden fruit. They are still in Eden. The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled. ... Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. (en)
- I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings. (en)
- When in due course Charon ferries me across the Styx and everyone is telling everyone else what a rotten writer I was, I hope at least one voice will be heard piping up, 'But he did take trouble.' (en)
- There is no question that in making Mr P. G. Wodehouse a doctor of letters the University has done the right and popular thing. Everyone knows at least some of his many works and has felt all the better for the gaiety of his wit and the freshness of his style. (en)
- He has the most distorted ideas about wit and humour; he draws over his books and examination papers in the most distressing way and writes foolish rhymes in other people's books. Notwithstanding he has a genuine interest in literature and can often talk with enthusiasm and good sense about it. (en)
- The actual work is negligible.... So far, I have had eight collaborators. The system is that A. gets the original idea, B. comes in to work with him on it, C. makes a scenario, D. does preliminary dialogue, and then they send for me to insert Class and what-not. Then E. and F., scenario writers, alter the plot and off we go again. (en)
- There are pleasant little spots my heart is fixed on,
Down at Parkhurst or at Portland on the sea,
And some put up at Holloway and Brixton,
But Pentonville is good enough for me. (en)
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- — Malcolm Muggeridge, discussing Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts from Germany. (en)
- — From Wodehouse's first lyric for a stage show, 1904. (en)
- — The Times on Wodehouse's honorary doctorate, June 1939 (en)
- — Wodehouse, in his Berlin broadcasts. (en)
- — Dulwich College report on Wodehouse, 1899. (en)
- — Evelyn Waugh, 1961 (en)
- — Wodehouse on Wodehouse, 1957 (en)
- — Wodehouse on working in Hollywood. (en)
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