Arthur Sullivan Quotes

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One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

Arthur Sullivan
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Arthur Sullivan
After all we [have] each of us only eight notes to work upon.

Arthur Sullivan
The Sun, whose rays Are all ablaze With ever-living glory, Does not deny His majesty — He scorns to tell a story!

Arthur Sullivan
I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical.

Arthur Sullivan
Her taste exact For faultless fact Amounts to a disease.

Arthur Sullivan
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news —With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

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I've got a little list — I've got a little list... I've got him on the list. They never would be missed — they never would be missed!

Arthur Sullivan
How quaint the ways of paradox At common sense she gaily mocks.

Arthur Sullivan
A Darwinian Man, though well-behaved, At best is only a monkey shaved!

Arthur Sullivan
RUTH: A paradox?
KING: A paradox! A most ingenious paradox! We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks, But none to beat this paradox!

Arthur Sullivan
Of what there is no manner of doubt, No probable, possible, shadow of doubt, No possible doubt whatever.

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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.

Arthur Sullivan
Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space Roll on! What though I'm in a sorry case? What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?

Arthur Sullivan