W. S. Gilbert - Love Quotes

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When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

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Twenty love-sick maidens we,
Love-sick all against our will.

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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!"

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It's a song of a merryman, moping mum,
Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum, Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb,
As he sighed for the love of a lady.

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I love my fellow-creatures, I do all the good I can,
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man
And I can't think why!

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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

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So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
Elderly ugly daughter.

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No Englishman unmoved that statement hears,
Because, with all our faults, we love our House of Peers.

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I know what love is. There was a happy time when I didn't, but bitter experience has taught me.

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Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win—
Blood is thick, but water's thin —
In for a penny, in for a pound —
It's Love that makes the world go round!

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