David Nobbs Quotes

David Gordon Nobbs was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels. Wikipedia

✵ 13. March 1935 – 9. August 2015

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David Nobbs Quotes

“When Reginald Iolanthe Perrin set out for work on the Thursday morning, he had no intention of calling his mother-in-law a hippopotamus.”

Opening sentence, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

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