W. S. Gilbert Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
-
George Burns was the father I never had.
-
The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
-
Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.
-
I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.
-
Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.
-
If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.
-
My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.
-
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
-
Sending our Armed Forces across an international border clearly is a major political decision, with profound implications for Britain's international relations.
-
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
-
Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
-
Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
-
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
-
Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.
-
Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.
-
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.
-
If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
