Quote of the Day (P.G. Wodehouse, on an Unsteady Person)

“Bicky rocked like a jelly in a high wind.”—British humorist P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), “Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg”

Quote of the Day (P.G. Wodehouse, on Dangerous Dining in Hearst’s Castle)

“Meals are in an enormous room, and are served at a long table, with [William Randolph] Hearst sitting in the middle on one side and [actress-mistress] Marion Davies in the middle on the other. The longer you are there, the further you get from the middle. I sat on Mario’s right the first night, then found myself being edged further and further away till I got to the extreme end, when I thought it time to leave. Another day, and I should have been feeding on the floor.”—Humorist P.G. Wodehouse, in a letter to a friend describing his visit to William Randolph Hearst’s San Simeon, Feb. 25, 1931, quoted in The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, edited by James Sutherland (1975)