67 Quotes by W.S. Gilbert

There’s a fascination frantic in a ruin that’s romantic.

Life’s a pudding full of plums.

A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.

Bind up their wounds – but look the other way.

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

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.

Life’s perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

If you’re anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

All bayonets are bad.