A. P. Herbert Quotes
An English humourist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist.
(1890 - 1971)
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A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
[God]
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. there must be some scum.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.
[Health]
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
[Marriage]
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
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