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,...
world dull flats
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
life pudding plums
Life's a pudding full of plums.
country tone idiot
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
giving statistics narrative
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
flats
Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
sports animal gun
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
work peers wells
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
milk masquerade cream
As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."
sorry world unjust
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
men
When everyone is somebody then no one's anybody.
I'd feel more comfortable if multiples were lower.
businesses certainly open
Cleveland, because of the other businesses we have there now, is certainly a place we would look at. We're always open to talking.
kids proud
I'm really proud of the kids and coaches,
double race
They were like, 'Why was a double on the race course?' and we said, 'We're blind,'