W.S. Gilbert Quotes

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . . " "What is?" "You know. Being liked." I started to cry. I couldn't help it.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Is not all creation a transgression?

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.

When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.

I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.

Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.

I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

eventually, everything goes away.

Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.

The word good has many meanings.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

Language is a living thing

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.