Quote

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

W. S. Gilbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Short
Model
Mineral
Modern
Scientific
Vegetable
Animal
Majors
Minerals
Names
Major
Calculus
Matter
Matters
Integral
Good
Models
Vegetables
General
Mathematical
Beings
Math
Differential

More quotes by W. S. Gilbert

Image
Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
Image
On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.
W. S. Gilbert
Image
Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space, Roll on!
W. S. Gilbert
Image
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
Image
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
W. S. Gilbert
Image
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well
W. S. Gilbert
Image
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
W. S. Gilbert
Image
It's true I've got no shirts to wear It's true my butcher's bill is due It's true my prospects all look blue - But don't let that unsettle you.
W. S. Gilbert
Image
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
W. S. Gilbert
Image
I am the very model of a modern major general
W. S. Gilbert
Image
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
W. S. Gilbert
Image
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
W. S. Gilbert
Image
If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to provoke Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.
W. S. Gilbert
Image
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
Image
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
W. S. Gilbert
Image
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
Image
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
W. S. Gilbert
Image
All bayonets are bad.
W. S. Gilbert
Image
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
W. S. Gilbert
Image
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.
W. S. Gilbert