I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland. W. S. Gilbert More Quotes by W. S. Gilbert More Quotes From W. S. Gilbert When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. W. S. Gilbert assessment men He did nothing in particular, and did it very well. W. S. Gilbert peers wells work Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. W. S. Gilbert details statistics giving It's love that makes the world go round. W. S. Gilbert criminal-mind rounds world As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream." W. S. Gilbert masquerade cream milk I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. W. S. Gilbert unjust sorry world I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore! W. S. Gilbert sick cheer sea Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. W. S. Gilbert gun animal sports No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast. W. S. Gilbert sarcastic dirty thinking 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 flats life long It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. W. S. Gilbert cooking tables food When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to. W. S. Gilbert mps leader house Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at? W. S. Gilbert flats dull world Life's a pudding full of plums. W. S. Gilbert plums pudding life If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: W. S. Gilbert erring attention giving Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise. W. S. Gilbert afternoon surprise luck I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. W. S. Gilbert descent ancestry facts In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case. W. S. Gilbert woe women race A man is but an ass W. S. Gilbert ass fighting men I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, W. S. Gilbert prejudice age two
