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W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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Famous W. S. Gilbert Quotations
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 - 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. These, as well as most of their other Savoy operas, continue to be performed regularly throughout the English-speaking world and beyond by opera companies, repertory companies, schools and community theatre groups. Lines from these works have become part of the English language, such as "short, sharp shock", "What never? Well, hardly ever!", and "Let the punishment fit the crime"
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- If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. W. S. Gilbert »
- Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. W. S. Gilbert »
- My object all sublime I shall achieve in time... W. S. Gilbert »
- No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. W. S. Gilbert »
- Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. W. S. Gilbert »
- When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. W. S. Gilbert »
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