W. S. Gilbert: Man

“…Darwinian Man, though well-behav’d,
At best is only a monkey shav’d!”

W. S. Gilbert

Princess Ida (1884)

“I love my fellow-creatures, I do all the good I can,
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man
And I can't think why!”

W. S. Gilbert

The disagreeable Man (from Princess Ida).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love , Thinking

“Pooh Bah: This professional conscientiousness is highly creditable to you, but it places us in a very awkward position.
Koko: My good sir, the awkwardness of your position is grace itself compared with that of a man engaged in the act of cutting off his own head.”

W. S. Gilbert

The Mikado (1885)

“A pallid and thin young man,
A haggard and lank young man,
A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery,
Foot-in-the-grave young man!”

W. S. Gilbert

Patience (1881)

“One of you may be Baptisto's son, for anything I know to the contrary; but the other is no less a personage than the only son
of the late King of Barataria. … And I trust — I trust it was that one who slapped me on the shoulder and called me his man!”

W. S. Gilbert

The Gondoliers (1889)

“Man is nature's sole mistake.”

W. S. Gilbert

Princess Ida (1884)

Nature