Quotes of A. P. Herbert - somelinesforyou

“ A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions inextricable from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth… ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ 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. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ 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. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions inextricable from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth… ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions inextricable from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth… ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.". ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ 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. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.". ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.". ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions inextricable from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth… ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ 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. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions inextricable from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth… ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions inextricable from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth… ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ 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. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions inextricable from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth… ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.". ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions inextricable from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth… ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions inextricable from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth… ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ 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. ”

- A. P. Herbert
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