W. S. Gilbert: Man

W. S. Gilbert was English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo. Explore interesting quotes on man.

W. S. Gilbert: 134 quotes1 like

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

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!”

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

“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.”

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!”

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!”

The Gondoliers (1889)

“Man is nature's sole mistake.”

Princess Ida (1884)