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
funny life anniversary
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.
funny humor people
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
lonely children golf
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.
pain police citizens
Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.
hope men miracles-of-god
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
writing world tonight
For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
time funny-marriage breakfast
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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.