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Famous W. S. Gilbert Quotes
“My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.”
“No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.”
“Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.”
“Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.”
“It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.”
Source: The Mikado and other Operas
“So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.”
“It's love that makes the world go round.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.”
“Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“Life's a pudding full of plums.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
Source: The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan