W. S. Gilbert Quotes

• No importa tanto lo que hay en la mesa como lo que hay en las sillas.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Food, Cooking, Tables

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• He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Work, Peers, Wells

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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• When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Men, Assessment

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “King Goodheart”

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• It's love that makes the world go round.

  W. S. Gilbert

  World, Criminal Mind, Rounds

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.504, Oxford University Press

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• Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

  W. S. Gilbert

  World, Dull, Flats

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• Life's a pudding full of plums.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Life, Pudding, Plums

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.965, Oxford University Press

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• I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sorry, World, Unjust

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.703, Oxford University Press

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• Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Details, Statistics

  The Mikado act 2 (1885)

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• Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Life, Long, Flats

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.607, Oxford University Press

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• El acecho de ciervos sería un deporte muy bonito si los ciervos tuvieran armas.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sports, Animal, Gun

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• No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sarcastic, Dirty, Thinking

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• I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cheer, Sea, Sick

  H.M.S. Pinafore act 1 (1878)

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• Faint heart never won fair lady!
  Nothing venture, nothing win
  Blood is thick, but water's thin
  In for a penny, in for a pound
  It's Love that makes the world go 'round!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Heart, Winning, Blood

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.505, Oxford University Press

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• Cuando en esa Cámara los diputados se dividen/Si también tienen cerebro y cerebelo/Tienen que dejar ese cerebro fuera/Y votar lo que les digan sus líderes.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Mps, House, Leader

  Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.457, Penguin UK

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• 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."

  W. S. Gilbert

  Milk, Masquerade, Cream

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• 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.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Math, Animal, Vegetables

  'The Pirates of Penzance' (1879) act 1

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• No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Writing, Years, Play

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• 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.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Facts, Ancestry, Descent

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.637, Oxford University Press

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• Life is a joke that's just begun.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Life Is, Jokes

  'The Mikado' (1885) act 1

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• Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Humility, Pride, Modesty

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• Tengo una risita irritante, tengo una mueca célebre,
  tengo una risita divertida, tengo una mirada fascinante;
  Para los prejuicios de todos, sé un par de cosas;
  Puedo decir la edad de una mujer en medio minuto... y lo hago.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Two, Age, Prejudice

  'Princess Ida' (1884) act 1

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• Man is nature's sole mistake.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Mistake, Men, Sole

  'Princess Ida' (1884) act 2

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• Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Luck, Afternoon, Surprise

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• Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Life, Giving Up, Riddle

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.965, Oxford University Press

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• Es algo glorioso ser un Rey Pirata.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kings, Pirate, Glorious

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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