Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
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
Police
Abolishes
Court
Empties
Quite
Divorces
Courses
Forsaken
Society
Courts
Abolish
Divorce
Wicked
More quotes by W. S. Gilbert
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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
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
If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?
W. S. Gilbert
I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
W. S. Gilbert
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
W. S. Gilbert
Man is nature's sole mistake.
W. S. Gilbert
Things are seldom what they seem.
W. S. Gilbert
I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
W. S. Gilbert
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
W. S. Gilbert
A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass
W. S. Gilbert
It's love that makes the world go round.
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
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
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
W. S. Gilbert
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
W. S. Gilbert
I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.
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've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do
W. S. Gilbert
I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
W. S. Gilbert
