Showing All W. S. Gilbert Quotes


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Quote #1:   "When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody."
Quote #2:   "Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream."
Quote #3:   "My object all sublime I shall achieve in time..."
Quote #4:   "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."
Quote #5:   "Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
Quote #6:   "No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast."