"This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid;……" — A. P. Herbert
"This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade."
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22 Quotes by A. P. Herbert
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Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game…
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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,…
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Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what…
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My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He…
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Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday,…
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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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Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to…
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