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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
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
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
A man is but an assWho fights in a cuirass — W.S. Gilbert
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelistI 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
All bayonets are bad.
— W.S. Gilbert
Bless your heart, they don't mindthey're exceedingly
kind
They don't blame you
as long as you're funny! — W.S. Gilbert
If I can wheedleA 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
What though I cannot meet my bills?What though I suffer toothache's ills?
What though I swallow countless pills? — 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 galeAs 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
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
On my face extended flatI was walloped with a cat
For listening at the key-hole of the door. — W.S. Gilbert
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces. — W.S. Gilbert
Things are seldom what they seem.
— W.S. Gilbert
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
— W.S. Gilbert
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickensLike 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
