Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

(The Code of the Woosters in the novel of the same name is "Never let a pal down. His father Henry Ernest Wodehouse (1845–1929) was a British judge in Hong Kong. "Bertie Changes his Mind" Right Ho Jeeves) or by convincing him to sacrifice himself.

He is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927) wrote lyrics to Sigmund Romberg's music for the Gershwin – Romberg musical Rosalie (1928) and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).