67 Quotes by W.S. Gilbert

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

I am an acquired taste.

Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheekThy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care their arms around the creep, For oh they can not bear to see their father weep

Crushed again!

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dockin a pestilential prison with a life-long lockawaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shockfrom a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

This particularly rapid, unintelligible patterIsn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter,This particularly rapid, unintelligible patterIsn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter,matter, matter, matter, matter, matter,matter, matter, matter, matter, matter!

Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.

Life is a joke that’s just begun.

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.