67 Quotes by W.S. Gilbert

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

I am the very model of a modern major general.

Oh, don’t the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn’t your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

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.

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.