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W S Gilbert Inspirational Quotes (96)

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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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I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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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!
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
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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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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
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Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
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Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!
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Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
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Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past
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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.
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Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
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I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
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