Famous Quotes, Funny Quotes from W. S. Gilbert [1836 - 1911] - English librettist & writer of comic operettas  

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Quotes "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."
- W. S. Gilbert.
Quotes "Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
- W. S. Gilbert.
Quotes "No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast."
- W. S. Gilbert.
Quotes "Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream."
- W. S. Gilbert.
Quotes "When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody."
- W. S. Gilbert.
Quotes "My object all sublime I shall achieve in time..."
- W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885.

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