William Schwenck Gilbert Quotes (17 Quotes)

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line As a man of culture rare, You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms And plant them everywhere. You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases Of your complicated state of mind, The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter Of a transendental kind.

Of the Duke of Plaza Toro He led his regiment from behind - He found it less exciting.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time To let the punishment fit the crime The punishment fit the crime.

I am the Captain of the Pinafore And a right good captain too .... And Im never, never sick at sea What, never No, never What never Hardly ever Hes hardly ever sick at sea Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore.

It's a song of a merry man, moping mum, whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum, who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb, as he sighed for the love of a lady.

On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Sang Willow, titwillow, titwillow And I said to him, Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing Willow, titwillow, titwillow Is it a weakness of intellect, birdie I cried, Or a rather tough worm in your little inside With a shake of his poor little head he replied, Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses.

Three little maids from school are we, pert as a schoolgirl well can be.

When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorneys firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queens Navee .... Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, And you all may be Rulers of the Queens Navee.

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.'

When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in, without impropriety.

Oh, dont the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isnt your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at.

Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy We're very wide awake The Moon and I.

I've got a little list of society offenders who might well be underground and who never would be missed.

It is my duty, and I will It was their duty, and they did.

When every one is somebody, Then no one's anybody!