67 Quotes by W.S. Gilbert

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.

Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We’re very wide awake The Moon and I.

The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he’s down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.

Though I’m anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.