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“Art stopped short at the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.”

W. S. Gilbert

Patience (1881)

W. S. Gilbert

"Unappreciated Shakespeare", Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Christmas Number, 9 December 1882.

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

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The Mikado (1885)

“Life's a pudding full of plums;
Care's a canker that benumbs,
Wherefore waste our elocution
On impossible solution?
Life's a pleasant institution,
Let us take it as it comes!”

W. S. Gilbert

The tangled Skein.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I can tell a woman's age in half a minute — and I do!”

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Princess Ida (1884)

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

W. S. Gilbert

The Mikado (1885)

“Archibald: To understand this, it is not necessary to think of anything at all.
Saphir: Let us think of nothing at all!”

W. S. Gilbert

Patience (1881)

“I've jibe and joke,
And quip and crank,
For lowly folk
And men of rank.”

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The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)

“When maiden loves, she sits and sighs,
She wanders to and fro -
Unbidden tear-drops fill her eyes,
And to all questions she replies
With a sad "heigh ho!"”

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The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)

“I have a left shoulder-blade that is a miracle of loveliness. People come miles to see it. My right elbow has a fascination that few can resist.”

W. S. Gilbert

The Mikado (1885)

“There's a little group of isles beyond the wave,
So tiny you might almost wonder where it is—
That nation is the bravest of the brave,
And cowards are the rarest of all rarities.
The proudest nations kneel at her command,
She terrifies all foreign-born rap-scallions;
And holds the peace of Europe in her hand
With half a score invincible battalions.”

W. S. Gilbert

Final chorus.
Utopia Limited (1893)

“In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind—
He found it less exciting.”

W. S. Gilbert

The Gondoliers (1889)

“Ah, take one consideration with another
A policeman's lot is not a happy one!”

W. S. Gilbert

The Policeman's Lot (from The Pirates of Penzance).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen,
An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band,
If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.”

W. S. Gilbert

Act I
Patience (1881)

“As innocent as a new-laid egg.”

W. S. Gilbert Engaged

Engaged.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is an Englishman!.

For he might have been a Rooshian
A French or Turk or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an.
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman.”

W. S. Gilbert

The Englishman (from HMS Pinafore).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“What, never? / No, never! / What, never? / Well, hardly ever!”

W. S. Gilbert

H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)

“Roll on, thou ball, roll on
Through pathless realms of space,
Roll on!”

W. S. Gilbert

To the Terrestrial Globe.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!”

W. S. Gilbert

The Mikado (1885)

“Man is nature's sole mistake.”

W. S. Gilbert

Princess Ida (1884)