My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert More Quotes by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert More Quotes From Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Things are seldom what they seem. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert 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. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he found it less exciting. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
