W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
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To sit in solemn silence on 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.
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
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In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
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I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
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The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
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I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.
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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
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What though I cannot meet my bills?
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I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.