Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Life's a pudding full of plums.
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
Plums
Pudding
Full
Life
More quotes by W. S. Gilbert
He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.
W. S. Gilbert
It's love that makes the world go round.
W. S. Gilbert
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
When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.
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
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
Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
W. S. Gilbert
When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
W. S. Gilbert
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
W. S. Gilbert
In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
W. S. Gilbert
Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!
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
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
W. S. Gilbert
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
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.
W. S. Gilbert
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
W. S. Gilbert
Life is a joke that's just begun.
W. S. Gilbert
So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.
W. S. Gilbert
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
W. S. Gilbert
