W. S. Gilbert Quotes - Page 2

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• When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lying, Indulge In, Anxiety

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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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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• In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

  W. S. Gilbert

  May, Conclusion, Agree

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “King Goodheart”

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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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• 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

  W. S. Gilbert

  Two, Age, Prejudice

  'Princess Ida' (1884) act 1

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Done, Duty

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Mistake, Moon, Shy

  Sir W. S. Gilbert (1929). “The Mikado and other Operas”

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• I often think it's comical
  How Nature always does contrive
  That every boy and every gal
  That's born into the world alive
  Is either a little Liberal
  Or else a little Conservative!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Boys, Thinking, Doe

  Iolanthe act 2 (1882)

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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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• 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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• 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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