W. S. Gilbert Quotes - Page 2

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• It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kings, Pirate, Glorious

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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• Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?

  W. S. Gilbert

  Flats

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.607, Oxford University Press

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• If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Men, Shining, Culture

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• You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lying, Mind, Phrases

  'Patience' (1881) act 1

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• Let the punishment fit the crime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Punishment, Fit, Crime

  The Mikado act 2 (1885)

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• I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
  And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

  W. S. Gilbert

  Income, Return, Manners

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Country, Tone, Idiot

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Clever, Forever

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.229, Oxford University Press

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• Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Death, Boon, Ifs

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.843, Oxford University Press

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• To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Block, Dark, Long

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• Things are seldom what they seem.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Appearance, Things Are Not What They Seem, Seems

  H.M.S. Pinafore act 2 (1878)

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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.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Attention, Erring

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Pride, Helping, My Family

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• It's true I've got no shirts to wear;
  It's true my butcher's bill is due;
  It's true my prospects all look blue -
  But don't let that unsettle you.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Blue, Looks, Bills

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “To The Terrestrial Globe”

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• My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Time, Punishment, Sublime

  The Mikado act 2 (1885)

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• I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Love, Men, Philanthropy

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• every Jack
  He must study the knack
  If he wants to make sure of his Jill!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Knack, Want, Study

  Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.863, Penguin UK

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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

  W. S. Gilbert

  Blow, Past, Echoes

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Story Of Prince Agib”

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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

  W. S. Gilbert

  Children, War, Government

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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• Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
  Through pathless realms of Space,
  Roll on!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Space, Balls, Earth

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “To The Terrestrial Globe”

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• In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Philosophical, Discovery, Secret

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• I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Hands, Accepting, Refreshments

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.637, Oxford University Press

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• In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Women, Race, Woe

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• Utopia's quite another land;
  In her enterprising movements,
  She is England--with improvements

  W. S. Gilbert

  Land, Movement, Improvement

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.1121, Oxford University Press

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• A man is but an ass
  Who fights in a cuirass

  W. S. Gilbert

  Fighting, Men, Ass

  Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.588, Penguin UK

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