W.S. Gilbert Quotes

Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely most politely Flatter and impress the lady Most politely most politely Humbly beg and humbly sue She may deign to look on you.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.
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And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens And his aunts!
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.
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You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.
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I always voted at my party's call And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.
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I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.
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You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.
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Oh I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmate And the crew of the captain's gig.
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Now landsmen all whoever you may be If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.
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And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens And his aunts!
W.S. Gilbert
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.
W.S. Gilbert
You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.
W.S. Gilbert
I always voted at my party's call And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W.S. Gilbert
When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.
W.S. Gilbert
I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.
W.S. Gilbert
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.
W.S. Gilbert
Oh I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmate And the crew of the captain's gig.
W.S. Gilbert
Now landsmen all whoever you may be If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.
W.S. Gilbert
A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment.
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And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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As innocent as a new-laid egg.
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Did nothing in particular and did it very well.
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Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!
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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.
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For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
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He did nothing in particular And did it very well.
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Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.
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Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.
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Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
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Crushed again!
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And the next day the gondolier came with a train of other gondoliers, all decked in their holiday garb, and on his gondola sat Angela, happy, and blushing at her happiness. Then he and she entered the house in which I dwelt, and came into my room (and it was strange indeed, after so many years of inversion, to see her with her head above her feet!), and then she wished me happiness and a speedy restoration to good health (which could never be); and I in broken words and with tears in my eyes, gave her the little silver crucifix that had stood by my bed or my table for so many years. And Angela took it reverently, and crossed herself, and kissed it, and so departed with her delighted husband.And as I heard the song of the gondoliers as they went their way--the song dying away in the distance as the shadows of the sundown closed around me--I felt that they were singing the requiem of the only love that had ever entered my heart.
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Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheekThy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care their arms around the creep, For oh they can not bear to see their father weep
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I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
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I am an acquired taste.
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