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The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist! — W.S. Gilbert

See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A. — W.S. Gilbert

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. — W.S. Gilbert

A policeman's lot is not a happy one — W.S. Gilbert

I am an acquired taste. — W.S. Gilbert

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise. — W.S. Gilbert

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone. — W.S. Gilbert

Utopia's quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England
with improvements — W.S. Gilbert

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case. — W.S. Gilbert

Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever. — W.S. Gilbert

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law. — W.S. Gilbert

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody! — W.S. Gilbert

Every Jack
He must study the knack
If he wants to make sure of his Jill! — W.S. Gilbert

Life is a joke that's just begun. — W.S. Gilbert

Life's a pudding full of plums. — W.S. Gilbert

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns — W.S. Gilbert

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity. — W.S. Gilbert

I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
Photographically lined
On the tablet of my mind — W.S. Gilbert

We yield at once with humbled mien,
Because, with all our faults, we love our Queen. — W.S. Gilbert

A man is but an ass
Who fights in a cuirass — W.S. Gilbert

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. — W.S. Gilbert

And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist
I don't think she'd be missed
I'm sure she'd not be
missed! — W.S. Gilbert

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter. — W.S. Gilbert

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up. — W.S. Gilbert

All bayonets are bad. — W.S. Gilbert

Bless your heart, they don't mind
they're exceedingly
kind
They don't blame you
as long as you're funny! — W.S. Gilbert

If I can wheedle
A knife or a needle,
Why not a Silver Churn? — W.S. Gilbert

The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State. — W.S. Gilbert

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

What though I cannot meet my bills?
What though I suffer toothache's ills?
What though I swallow countless pills? — W.S. Gilbert

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. — W.S. Gilbert

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
Elderly ugly daughter. — W.S. Gilbert

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

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime. — W.S. Gilbert

Wafted by a favouring gale
As one sometimes is in trances,
To a height that few can scale,
Save by long and weary dances — W.S. Gilbert

Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at? — W.S. Gilbert

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation. — W.S. Gilbert

I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly. — W.S. Gilbert

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. — W.S. Gilbert

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected. — W.S. Gilbert

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

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting. — W.S. Gilbert

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W.S. Gilbert

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — W.S. Gilbert

Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity. — W.S. Gilbert

Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
And the mate of the Nancybrig,
And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite,
And the crew of the captain's gig! — W.S. Gilbert

On my face extended flat
I was walloped with a cat
For listening at the key-hole of the door. — W.S. Gilbert

CHORUS
What, never?

CAPTAIN
No, never!

CHORUS
What, never?

CAPTAIN
Well, hardly ever! — W.S. Gilbert

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces. — W.S. Gilbert

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound. — W.S. Gilbert

Things are seldom what they seem. — W.S. Gilbert

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. — W.S. Gilbert

Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I. — W.S. Gilbert

Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of
Dickens — W.S. Gilbert

Poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished — W.S. Gilbert

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother. — W.S. Gilbert

Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
Through pathless realms of Space — W.S. Gilbert

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way. — W.S. Gilbert

Let the punishment fit the crime. — W.S. Gilbert

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. — W.S. Gilbert

The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. — W.S. Gilbert

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at? — W.S. Gilbert