I always advise people never to give advice.

The line is a characteristically Wodehousian paradox: it turns a commonplace social habit—offering advice—into a self-cancelling joke. On one level it satirizes the human impulse to prescribe solutions for others while ignoring how intrusive, fallible, or self-serving advice can be. On another, it gently mocks moral certainty: the speaker’s “always” and “never” are absolute terms that highlight the absurdity of trying to legislate behavior through maxims. In Wodehouse’s comic world, where well-meant interventions often cause chaos, the quip also functions as a practical philosophy: refrain from meddling, because certainty about other people’s lives is usually misplaced.