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W S Gilbert Inspirational Quotes (96)

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As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta H.M.S. Pinafore, in the words of W. S. Gilbert: Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
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Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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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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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.
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick, but water's thin In for a penny, in for a pound It's Love that makes the world go 'round!
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
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I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
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For duty, duty must be done The rule applies to everyone.
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There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
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every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
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What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
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When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling And listen to the merry village chime.
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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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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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