17 Quotations by W. S. Gilbert
- 1. Darwinian man, though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
- 2. Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they we ...
- 3. I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
- 4. I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descen ...
- 5. I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable ...
- 6. If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stum ...
- 7. In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he fo ...
- 8. It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
- 9. Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
- 10. Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and uncon ...
- 11. My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
- 12. My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
- 13. No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
- 14. The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own ...
- 15. Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
- 16. When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- 17. You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.
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