W. S. Gilbert
W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbertwas an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operasproduced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. These, as well as several of the other Savoy operas, continue to be frequently performed in the English-speaking world and beyond by opera companies, repertory companies,...
lying unrequited-love soul
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
daughter elderly ugly
So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.
party thinking voting
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
fashion plato passion
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
policemen
A policeman's lot is not a happy one
appearance things-are-not-what-they-seem seems
Things are seldom what they seem.
mistake men sole
Man is nature's sole mistake.
life-is jokes
Life is a joke that's just begun.
facts ancestry descent
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.
running errands treasure
The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
want knack study
every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
dirty thinking littles
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
space earth balls
Roll on, thou ball, roll on! Through pathless realms of Space
criminal-mind world-is-round rounds
It's love that makes the world go round.