Sir Humphrey: Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years.If I had believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market, and passionately committed to going into it. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. 2 notes.
Sir Humphrey: Unfortunately, although the answer was indeed clear, simple, and straightforward, there is some difficulty in justifiably assigning to it the fourth of the epithets you applied to the statement, inasmuch as the precise correlation between the information you communicated and the facts, insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated, is such as to cause epistemological problems, of sufficient … An example of a clerihew, an irregular form of biographical humorous verse, devised by the author. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause, we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans and with the French against the Germans and Italians.
I simply do as I am instructed by my master." Bernard Woolley: Yes.
An Oxford man with a privileged upbringing, Sir Humphrey always wears single-breasted, two-button suits, usually with a light coloured shirt and pocket square.
Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul’s School.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: No. They need activity. Fromn Edmund Clerihew Bentley, 'Sir Humphrey [sic] Davy', Biography for Beginners (1905).
Sir Humphrey Appleby and the tale of the prescription charge Sir Humphrey Appleby had a certain way with him in dealing with politicians whom he believed were going, too well, a bit too Bernard Woolley: Yes. Reblog 【Punchline】 (YPM S1E5) Sir Humphrey: You see, Prime Minister, the problem is that low morale will inevitably lead to the danger of a strike. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Do you think there's a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?
Apparently he has been nicknamed ‘Sir Humphrey’, which is gratifying in that it suggests I am a legend within Whitehall. So financially speaking, it's unquestionably better that they continue to … Minister I’m shocked. Collected in … Sir Humphrey Appleby — ‘Politicians like to panic. Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB KBE MVO is a fictional character from the British television series Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.He was played originally by Sir Nigel Hawthorne, both on stage and in a television adaptation of the stage show by Henry Goodman in a new series of Yes, Prime Minister. “Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service.
This is in direct contrast to Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne).
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Yes, yes, yes, I do see that there is a real dilemma here. It's their substitute for achievement.’ Sir Humphrey Appleby, from the classic British telecom, Yes, Ministermakes this astute observation to the Minister James Hacker. I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby on his deathbed, surround by wills and insurance claim forms, looking up and saying, 'I cannot go yet, God, I haven't done the paperwork.” ― Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay, The Complete Yes Minister Sir Humphrey Appleby: "Yes, but it has been shown that if those extra 100,000 people had lived to a ripe old age, it would have cost us even more in pensions and social security than it did in medical treatment.