A. P. Herbert
A. P. Herbert
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH, also known as A. P. Herbert or simply A. P. H., was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist who served as an independent Member of Parliamentfor Oxford University from the 1935 general election to the 1950 general election, when university constituencies were abolished...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth24 September 1890
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A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
golf men games
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
kings men chance
The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.
golf men blue
My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
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An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
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aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
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The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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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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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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The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.
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Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.