W. S. Gilbert Quotes - Page 4

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• The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sailing, Arms, Knees

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• Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Knows, Posterity

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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!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Funny, Morning, Night

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Family Fool”

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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.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Morning, Up Early, Giving

  Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.844, Penguin UK

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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.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kissing, Hands, Trying

  1889 The Gondoliers, act 2.

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• All bayonets are bad.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Bayonets

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• A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Wind, Half, Dozen

  "Unappreciated Shakespeare". Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News magazine, Christmas Number, December 09, 1882.

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• When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Employment, Littles, Felons

  The Pirates of Penzance act 2 (1879)

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• I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kings, Military, Fighting

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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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!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cracks, Wages, Crowns

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Family Fool”

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• On my face extended flat
  I was walloped with a cat
  For listening at the key-hole of the door.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cat, Keys, Doors

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• Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!
  Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Class, Bows, Middle

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 1

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• If I can wheedle
  A knife or a needle,
  Why not a Silver Churn?

  W. S. Gilbert

  Knives, Imagination, Why Not

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.395, Oxford University Press

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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!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Gigs, Captains, Sun

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Yarn Of The Nancy Bell”

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• I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
  Photographically lined
  On the tablet of my mind

  W. S. Gilbert

  Memories, Mind, Age

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Story Of Prince Agib”

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• Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Looks, Way, Wounds

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.615, Oxford University Press

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• See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Fate, Prosperity, Dare

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.705, Oxford University Press

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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

  W. S. Gilbert

  Rap, Intellectual, May

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “AngLICIsed Utopia”

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• Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
  Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Divorce, Police, Wicked

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.1119, Oxford University Press

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• I am the very model of a modern major general

  W. S. Gilbert

  Modern, Minerals, Calculus

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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• What though I cannot meet my bills?
  What though I suffer toothache's ills?
  What though I swallow countless pills?

  W. S. Gilbert

  Suffering, Pills, Bills

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “To The Terrestrial Globe”

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