Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
W. S. Gilbert
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
W. S. Gilbert
Age: 74 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 18
Died: 1911
Died: May 29
Dramatist
Illustrator
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
London
England
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
William Schwenck Gilbert
William S. Gilbert
William Schwenk Gilbert
Bab
Bab Gilbert
William Gilbert
Helping
Something
Sneering
Inconceivable
Pride
Help
Family
Born
More quotes by W. S. Gilbert
For duty, duty must be done The rule applies to everyone.
W. S. Gilbert
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
W. S. Gilbert
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.
W. S. Gilbert
When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.
W. S. Gilbert
Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
W. S. Gilbert
On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.
W. S. Gilbert
No good play is a success fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.
W. S. Gilbert
The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
W. S. Gilbert
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W. S. Gilbert
A policeman's lot is not a happy one
W. S. Gilbert
It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
W. S. Gilbert
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
W. S. Gilbert
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!
W. S. Gilbert
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.
W. S. Gilbert
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
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
W. S. Gilbert
If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
W. S. Gilbert
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
W. S. Gilbert
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
W. S. Gilbert
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour!
W. S. Gilbert
