W.S. Gilbert

“CHORUS What, never? CAPTAIN No, never! CHORUS What, never? CAPTAIN Well, hardly ever!”

— W.S. Gilbert

“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…

— W.S. Gilbert

“Gilbert's response to being told they (the words 'ruddy' and 'bloody') meant the same thing was: "Not at all, for that would…

— W.S. Gilbert

“Now then, we've had a capital lunch, and we're quite ready. Have all the painful preparations been made?”

— W.S. Gilbert

“Sing 'Hey to you — good-day to you' — Sing 'Bah to you — ha! ha! to you' — Sing 'Booh to…

— W.S. Gilbert

“Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheek Thy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care…

— W.S. Gilbert

“Father, I am welling over with limpid joy! No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which,…

— W.S. Gilbert

“The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.”

— W.S. Gilbert

“I mean to rule the earth, As he the sky — We really know our worth, The sun and I”

— W.S. Gilbert

“Wafted by a favouring gale As one sometimes is in trances, To a height that few can scale, Save by long and…

— W.S. Gilbert

“Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——”

— W.S. Gilbert

“There was an old man of St. Bees, Who was stung in the arm by a wasp; When they asked, "Does it…

— W.S. Gilbert