25 Quotes by William Gilbert

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

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

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

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!