W. S. Gilbert Quotes

Now landsmen all whoever you may be If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't...

Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.

A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment.

Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheekThy loving childern here in them thy comfort...

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatr...

Crushed again!

I am an acquired taste.

And the next day the gondolier came with a train of other gondoliers, all decked in their holiday ga...

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

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely most politely Flatter and impress the lady Most poli...

I always voted at my party's call And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up ...

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

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me...

As innocent as a new-laid egg.

He did nothing in particular And did it very well.

For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of ...

You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.

Did nothing in particular and did it very well.

Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.

Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt wh...

Oh I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig And a bo'sun tight and a midshipm...

Did nothing in particular And did it very well.

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump...

I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.