Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy We're very wide awake The Moon and I.
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
Pray
Wide
Praying
Moon
Mistake
Shy
Awake
More quotes by W. S. Gilbert
I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
W. S. Gilbert
I am the Captain of the Pinafore And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
W. S. Gilbert
There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
W. S. Gilbert
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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
I am the very model of a modern major general
W. S. Gilbert
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
W. S. Gilbert
It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
W. S. Gilbert
Things are seldom what they seem.
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
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
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
All bayonets are bad.
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
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
W. S. Gilbert
Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
W. S. Gilbert
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
W. S. Gilbert
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. Gilbert
Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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
