A collection of quotes by W. S. Gilbert.
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Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
W. S. Gilbert
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.
In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he found it less exciting.
Things are seldom what they seem.
