Gilbert, W. S. quotes
1836-1911 British LibrettistDown went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
Gilbert, W. S.
Disasters
I always voted at my party s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
Gilbert, W. S.
Elections
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
Gilbert, W. S.
Dissatisfaction
It isn t so much what s on the table that matters, as what s on the chairs.
Gilbert, W. S.
Food and Eating
Matrimonial devotion doesn t seem to suit her notion.
Gilbert, W. S.
Fidelity
In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he found it less exciting.
Gilbert, W. S.
Generals
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
Gilbert, W. S.
Evolution
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.
Gilbert, W. S.
Inferiority
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he s a dirty little beast.
Gilbert, W. S.
Opinions
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can t help it. I was born sneering.
Gilbert, W. S.
Pride
I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I m such a disagreeable man!
Gilbert, W. S.
Philanthropists
Things are seldom what they seem.
Gilbert, W. S.
Appearance
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.
Gilbert, W. S.
Ancestry