67 Quotes by W.S. Gilbert

When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he’s a dirty little beast.

Man is nature’s sole mistake.

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

I love my fellow creatures – I do all the good I can – yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!

Oh, wouldn’t the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

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.

When the enterprising burglar isn’t burgling; When the cut-throat isn’t occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.