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William S. Gilbert Quotes

«No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.»
«And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!»
Author: William S. Gilbert (Lyricist) | Keywords: modified
«My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.»
«He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!»
Author: William S. Gilbert (Lyricist) | Keywords: Englishman
«The House of Peers, throughout the war, / Did nothing in particular, / And did it very well.»
«A wandering minstrel I - / A thing of shreds and patches.»
«Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.»
«Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.»
«Dukes were three a penny.»
Author: William S. Gilbert (Lyricist) | Keywords: penny, the duke
«The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.»

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