W. S. Gilbert - High Quotes

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Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band, If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand. And everyone will say, As you walk your flowery way, "If he's content with a vegetable love, which would certainly not suit me, Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man must be!"

W. S. Gilbert

When the footpads quail at the night-bird's wail, and black dogs bay at the moon, Then is the specters' holiday—then is the ghosts' high noon!

W. S. Gilbert

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen,
An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band,
If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.

W. S. Gilbert

If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare.

W. S. Gilbert

You can't get high aesthetic tastes,
Like trousers, ready-made.

W. S. Gilbert