Herbert Quotes

Sir A. P. Herbert - “Let's find out what everyone is doing, and then stop everyone from doing it.”

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “An Act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.”

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.”

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.”

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “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.”

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “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.”

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “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.”

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”

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Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “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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Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they’ve not idea what money’s for— Ten to one they’ll start another war. I’ve heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor’! Fancy giving money to the Government!”

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Sir Alan Patrick 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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Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “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!”

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Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - “The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure—the figure of ‘The Reasonable Man’.”

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Edward Herbert - “Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.”

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Frank Herbert - “Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

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Frank Herbert - “It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.”

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Frank Patrick Herbert - “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”

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Frank Patrick Herbert - “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”

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Frank Patrick Herbert - “Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.... The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.”

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Frank Patrick Herbert - “If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”

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Frank Patrick Herbert - “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

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Frank Patrick Herbert - “Life is not a mystery to solve, but a reality to experience.”

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Frank Patrick Herbert - “Much of what has been called religion has an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rule and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.”

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Frank Patrick Herbert - “... is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.”

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