Quotes by W. S. Gilbert

W. S. Gilbert

A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass

Ass

Fighting

Men

A policeman’s lot is not a happy one

Policemen

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare’s) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

Dozen

Half

Wind

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler – an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

Abuse

Democracy

Unhappy

Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We’re very wide awake The Moon and I.

Mistake

Moon

Shy

All bayonets are bad.

Bayonets

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.”

Cream

Masquerade

Milk

Bind up their wounds – but look the other way.

Looks

Way

Wounds

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Evolution Of Man

Men

Monkeys

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

Animal

Gun

Sports

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Abuse

Afternoon

Age

Agree

Ancestry

Animal

Appearance

Arms

Ass

Assessment

Bayonets

Bills

Block

Blow

Boon

Calculus

Captains

Children

Conclusion

Country

Cream

Criminal Mind

Culture

Dark

Death

Democracy

Descent

Dirty

Discovery

Divorce

Done

Dozen

Duty

Echoes

Employment

Evolution Of Man

Facts

Fashion

Felons

Fighting

Gigs

Giving

Glorious

Government

Gun

Half

Hands

Humility

Hunger

Idiot

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Quotes by W. S. Gilbert

W. S. Gilbert

A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass

A policeman’s lot is not a happy one

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare’s) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler – an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We’re very wide awake The Moon and I.

All bayonets are bad.

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.”

Bind up their wounds – but look the other way.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

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