Alan Patrick Herbert citáty

Alan Patrick Herbert byl britský politik.

✵ 24. září 1890 – 11. listopad 1971
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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight,
For mother will be there.”

"Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight", She-Shanties (1926).

“Was the cow crossed?"
"No, your worship, it was an open cow.”

A. P. Herbert kniha Uncommon Law

"The Negotiable Cow".
Uncommon Law (1935)

“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”

A. P. Herbert kniha Uncommon Law

"What Is a Judge?"
Uncommon Law (1935)

“The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.”

A. P. Herbert kniha Uncommon Law

"Is Marriage Lawful?"
Uncommon Law (1935)

“Let's stop somebody from doing something!
Everybody does too much.”

"Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something", Ballads for Broadbrows (1930).

“The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity
Are constructed with considerable care.”

"Lines on a Book Borrowed from the Ship's Doctor", A. P. H.: His Life and Times (1970).

“The laws were very comical; to bet was voted lax,
But your betting was the only thing that nobody could tax.”

Speech to Parliament, 1930s; quoted by Bernard Levin in The Pendulum Years (1970).

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

A. P. Herbert kniha Uncommon Law

"Is 'Highbrow' Libellous?"
Uncommon Law (1935)

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