“Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“CHORUS What, never? CAPTAIN No, never! CHORUS What, never? CAPTAIN Well, hardly ever!” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter, This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Gilbert's response to being told they (the words 'ruddy' and 'bloody') meant the same thing was: "Not at all, for that would mean that… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Now then, we've had a capital lunch, and we're quite ready. Have all the painful preparations been made?” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Sing 'Hey to you — good-day to you' — Sing 'Bah to you — ha! ha! to you' — Sing 'Booh to you —… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheek Thy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care their arms… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Father, I am welling over with limpid joy! No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which, hand in… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I mean to rule the earth, As he the sky — We really know our worth, The sun and I” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Wafted by a favouring gale As one sometimes is in trances, To a height that few can scale, Save by long and weary dances” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There was an old man of St. Bees, Who was stung in the arm by a wasp; When they asked, "Does it hurt?" He… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
