W. S. Gilbert - Man Quotes

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One of you may be Baptisto's son, for anything I know to the contrary; but the other is no less a personage than the only son
of the late King of Barataria.... And I trust — I trust it was that one who slapped me on the shoulder and called me his man!

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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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... Darwinian Man, though well-behav'd,
At best is only a monkey shav'd!

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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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Pooh Bah: This professional conscientiousness is highly creditable to you, but it places us in a very awkward position.
Koko: My good sir, the awkwardness of your position is grace itself compared with that of a man engaged in the act of cutting off his own head.

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A pallid and thin young man,
A haggard and lank young man,
A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery,
Foot-in-the-grave young man!

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

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When I went to the Bar as a very young man (Said I to myself, said I).

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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind, The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. And everyone will say, As you walk your mystic way, "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me, Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!"

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The prospect of a lot
Of dull MPs in close proximity,
All thinking for themselves is what
No man can face with equanimity.

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Francesca di Rimini, miminy, piminy,
Je-ne-sais-quoi young man!

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