Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. W. S. Gilbert More Quotes by W. S. Gilbert More Quotes From W. S. Gilbert Things are seldom what they seem. W. S. Gilbert things-are-not-what-they-seemappearanceseems If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere. W. S. Gilbert shiningmenculture To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block. W. S. Gilbert blockdarklong When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, W. S. Gilbert governmentwarchildren every Jack W. S. Gilbert knackstudywant I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! W. S. Gilbert philanthropylovemen The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State. W. S. Gilbert errandstreasurerunning Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at? W. S. Gilbert flats Man is nature's sole mistake. W. S. Gilbert solemistakemen Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: W. S. Gilbert memorablelovelying I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. W. S. Gilbert votingpartythinking Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. W. S. Gilbert evolution-of-manmonkeysmen The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. W. S. Gilbert toneidiotcountry Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your W. S. Gilbert passionfashionplato Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected. W. S. Gilbert virtuoustreatsborn My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. W. S. Gilbert my-familypridehelping Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound. W. S. Gilbert modestypridehumility After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power. W. S. Gilbert abusedemocracyunhappy Life is a joke that's just begun. W. S. Gilbert jokeslife-is So I fell in love with a rich attorney's W. S. Gilbert uglyelderlydaughter
