W. S. Gilbert Short Quotes

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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

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He uses language that would make your hair curl.

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It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

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When everyone is somebodee,
Then no one's anybody!

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I can tell a woman's age in half a minute — and I do!

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Here's a pretty state of things!
Here's a pretty how-de-do!

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Some word that teems with hidden meaning—like Basingstoke.

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

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

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What, never? / No, never! / What, never? / Well, hardly ever!

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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.

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

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I am the Captain of the Pinafore;
And a right good captain too!

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

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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

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

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If I can wheedle
A knife or a needle,
Why not a Silver Churn?

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Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

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Three little maids who, all unwary,
Come from a ladies' seminary.

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On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls.

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Art stopped short at the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.

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Deer-stalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

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He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

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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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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

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Roll on, thou ball, roll on
Through pathless realms of space,
Roll on!

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

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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!
Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses.

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When constabulary duty's to be done,
The policeman's lot is not a happy one.

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

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