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A. P. Herbert Quotes


An English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist.
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH (usually writing as A. P. Herbert or A. P. H.) (24 September 1890 – 11 November 1971) was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist. He was an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford University for 15 years, five of which he combined with service in the Royal Navy.

Here are some famous quotes by A. P. Herbert.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.