Top 88 A P Herbert Quotes
#1. It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
Herbert Spencer
#2. Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
A.P. Herbert
#3. 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.
A.P. Herbert
#4. People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
A.P. Herbert
#5. Holy Mother we do believe,
That without sin Thou didst conceive;
May we now in Thee believing,
Also sin without conceiving.
A.P. Herbert
#6. The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
A.P. Herbert
#9. Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I,
Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief-
Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die
Mocking at all that passes their belief.
Herbert Trench
#12. 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 behaviour not otherwise excusable.
A.P. Herbert
#13. Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.
Frank Herbert
#15. The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
Herbert Marcuse
#17. Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity.
Frank Herbert
#20. She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the empty spaces in her mind.
Brian Herbert
#21. The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Herbert Hoover
#22. He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
George Herbert
#23. I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
A.P. Herbert
#24. The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
A.P. Herbert
#25. Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.
A.P. Herbert
#26. As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
A.P. Herbert
#27. An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
A.P. Herbert
#28. For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
A.P. Herbert
#29. A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
A.P. Herbert
#30. The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep
A.P. Herbert
#31. The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
A.P. Herbert
#32. Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.
A.P. Herbert
#33. This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
A.P. Herbert
#34. Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
George Herbert
#35. Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
A.P. Herbert
#36. The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
A.P. Herbert
#37. Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God," Herbert McCabe, O.P., quoted in Christian Century, August 21, 2013, 21. Any
Rev. Joseph A. Heim
#38. 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.
A.P. Herbert
#39. Aven, I have given up smoking again! ... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
A.P. Herbert
#40. Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251
Frank Herbert
#41. The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.
A.P. Herbert
#42. There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.
A.P. Herbert
#43. My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.
A.P. Herbert
#44. Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
A.P. Herbert
#45. To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
Frank Herbert
#46. Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?
George Herbert
#49. It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Frank Herbert
#51. (Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.
Joseph Bottum
#52. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Frank Herbert
#53. In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.
Claire Tomalin
#55. I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.
Herbert Spencer
#58. If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
George Herbert
#59. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover
#60. Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Frank Herbert
#61. Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]
George Herbert
#62. Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
Frank Herbert
#63. Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides. The
Frank Herbert
#64. The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.
Brian Herbert
#68. A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!
Frank Herbert
#69. For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.
George Herbert
#70. The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.
George Herbert
#71. Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
A.P. Herbert
#72. Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
Frank Herbert
#73. To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
Frank Herbert
#74. The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.
Herbert Hoover
#76. We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis. She
Frank Herbert
#77. If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.
Herbert Benson
#78. You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Frank Herbert
#81. Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir
Frank Herbert
#82. The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.
George Herbert
#83. A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
A.P. Herbert
#86. All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!
Frank Herbert
#88. Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place." He glanced at the charts on the table. "And Arrakis is just another place.
Frank Herbert
