W. S. Gilbert Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.”
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“When everyone is somebody then no one's anybody.”
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“I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.”
-- W. S. GilbertSource : W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.703, Oxford University Press
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“Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.”
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“No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.”
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“Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancybrig, And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!”
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“I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind”
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“poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished”
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“When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well”
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“If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.”
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“I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do”
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“I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns”
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“What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?”
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“A man is but an ***** Who fights in a cuirass”
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“Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour!”
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“Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!”
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“Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past”
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“Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.”
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“If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
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“If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to provoke Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.”
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“Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.”
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“Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens”
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“For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.”
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“Life is a joke that's just begun.”
-- W. S. GilbertSource : 'The Mikado' (1885) act 1
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“I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.”
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“I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.”
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“On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.”
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“Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!”
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