W. S. Gilbert - Life Quotes

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None shall part us from each other,
One in life and death are we:
All in all to one another—
I to thee and thou to me!
Thou the tree and I the flower —
Thou the idol; I the throng —
Thou the day and I the hour—
Thou the singer; I the song!

W. S. Gilbert

Life's a pudding full of plums;
Care's a canker that benumbs,
Wherefore waste our elocution
On impossible solution?
Life's a pleasant institution,
Let us take it as it comes!

W. S. Gilbert

My dear fellow, I never saw anything so funny in my life, and yet it was not in the least bit vulgar.

Of Beerbohm Tree's Hamlet (1892)

W. S. Gilbert

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

W. S. Gilbert

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

W. S. Gilbert

Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you.

W. S. Gilbert

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

W. S. Gilbert

Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

W. S. Gilbert