There are many rules one must follow if one wishes to write like P.G.Wodehouse.

The first of these is:

Never write:

Pop Bassett was surprised, Aunt Dahlia was resolved, and Constable Oates appeared vexed.

...when, to save paper, ink, and time you can simply write:

Pop Bassett, like the chap in the poem which I had to write out fifty times at school for introducing a white mouse into the English Literature hour, was plainly feeling like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken, while Aunt Dahlia and Constable Oates resembled respectively stout Cortez staring at the Pacific and all his men looking at each other with a wild surmise, silent upon a peak in Darien.

This Stout Cortez business is often mentioned by Wooster, and it comes from the same place as the business about "feeling like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken", that is to say, it is from the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" by Keats, John Keats— the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821), not the other John Keats who lives near my dad. Keats (the original Keats, I mean, the Keats Keats) first jotted that one down in October 1816. You can read more about it at wikipedia if you are a "read more about it" kind of person.

References

• On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, The Poetry Foundation
• Wikipedia: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - Wikipedia

See also

• Writing Rules — a more useful set of rules by a whole inkpot full of writers with none of the dash and verve of PGW. Most of their rules amount to "See how boring you can try to be", and "Do not try to write like PGW."
• The Pride of the Woosters — a character study of Bertram Wooster.