P. Herbert Quotes
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P. Herbert
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"A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso."
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"Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain."
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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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Topics:
Living
"Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all."
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Topics:
Brains
"This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade."
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Topics:
Trade
"Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain."
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Topics:
Giving
Government
"I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. there must be some scum."
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"Other people's babies - / That's my life! / Mother to dozens, / And nobody's wife."
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Topics:
Babies
"Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. 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 behavior not otherwise excusable."
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Topics:
Animals
Golf
"The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time"
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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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Topics:
Fun
"Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, / For mother will be there."
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Topics:
Dogs
"And when you rub the ball on rump or belly,Remember what it looks like on the telly."
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"An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.."
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"An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose."
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Topics:
Purpose
"It's hard to say why writing verse/ Should terminate in drink or worse."
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"And when you rub the ball on rump or belly,
Remember what it looks like on the telly."
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