Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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
Beast
Dirty
Higher
Opinion
Littles
Little
Think
Thinking
Sarcastic
More quotes by W. S. Gilbert
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
W. S. Gilbert
poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
W. S. Gilbert
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
W. S. Gilbert
I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
W. S. Gilbert
Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
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!
W. S. Gilbert
All bayonets are bad.
W. S. Gilbert
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens
W. S. Gilbert
Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!
W. S. Gilbert
Let the punishment fit the crime.
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
There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
W. S. Gilbert
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!
W. S. Gilbert
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
W. S. Gilbert
Man is nature's sole mistake.
W. S. Gilbert
Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
W. S. Gilbert
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.
W. S. Gilbert
Utopia's quite another land In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
W. S. Gilbert
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
W. S. Gilbert
I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
W. S. Gilbert
