It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
Life's a pudding full of plums.
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
It's love that makes the world go round.
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick, but water's thin In for a penny, in for a pound It's Love that makes the world go 'round!
I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."
Life is a joke that's just begun.
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.
It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
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