Quotes by W.S. Gilbert

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can't helpit. I was born sneering.

— W.S. Gilbert

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Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.

— W.S. Gilbert

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As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,  I've got a little list, I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground  And who never would be missed, who never would be missed!

— W.S. Gilbert

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

— W.S. Gilbert

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Darwinian Man, though well-behaved, At best is only a monkey shaved!

— W.S. Gilbert

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In enterprise of martial kind When there was any fighting, He led his reg'ment from behind He found it less exciting.

— W.S. Gilbert

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I am the very model of a modern Major-General; I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

— W.S. Gilbert

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