W. S. Gilbert: Quotes about life

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

W. S. Gilbert: 134 quotes1 like

“Is life a boon?
If so it must befall
That death when e're he call
Must call too soon.”

The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)

“Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you.”

The Sorcerer (1877)

“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!”

The tangled Skein.
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!”

The Mikado (1885)