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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.


William S. Gilbert

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WILLIAM S. GILBERT Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing, "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."
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WILLIAM S. GILBERT As innocent as a new-laid egg.
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WILLIAM S. GILBERT For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft-- Such a bright l...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Bad language or abuse I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though "Bother it" I m...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big, D.
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WILLIAM S. GILBERT He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
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WILLIAM S. GILBERT Take a pair of sparkling eyes.
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WILLIAM S. GILBERT I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pr...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT He uses language that would make your hair curl.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they we...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT But they couldn't chat together - they had not been introduced.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I was a pale young curate then.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT He led his regiment from behind - / He found it less exciting.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich, / Which is ...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The mildest curate going.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT And I always voted at my party's call, / And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Take my counsel, happy man; / Act upon it, if you can!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boil...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-- To let the punishment fit the crime.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT In enterprise of martial kind / When there was any fighting, / He led his reg'ment from behind / He ...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The House of Peers, throughout the war, / Did nothing in particular, / And did it very well.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT When I first put this uniform on.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT A source of innocent merriment.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT She may very well pass for forty-three / In the dusk with a light behind her!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bor...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular and well foreseen intervals, always seems to take...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT So I fell in love with a rich attorney's / Elderly ugly daughter.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I often think it's comical / How Nature always does contrive / That every boy and every gal, / That'...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Life is a joke that's just begun.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Dukes were three a penny.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Three little maids who, all unwary, / Come from a ladies' seminary.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Man is nature's sole mistake.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT A wandering minstrel I - / A thing of shreds and patches.
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WILLIAM GILBERT He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
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WILLIAM GILBERT Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
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W. S. GILBERT In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he fo...
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W. S. GILBERT It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
W. S. GILBERT The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own...
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W. S. GILBERT Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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W. S. GILBERT You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.
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W. S. GILBERT You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself-and how little I deserve it.
W. S. GILBERT When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
W. S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
W. S. GILBERT No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W. S. GILBERT Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and uncon...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, becaus...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in sil...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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WILLIAM S. PALEY Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked i...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implemen...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
WILLIAM S. PALEY Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other,...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectua...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he se...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The Pusher always gets it all back.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rise...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk,...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple st...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Kindness, Courtesy, Courage, and a Commitment to Academic Excellence" "But if everything goes wrong,...
WILLIAM S. HUNTER In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of so...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very u...
WILLIAM S. COHEN When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. N...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different an...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS This memorial is more than a remembrance, it's also a reminder that women in the military's service ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN We will not win the war on terror through military action. The sharing of information and intelligen...
WILLIAM S. COHEN (1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a d...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he us...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The threat of terrorism taking place on American soil is real, with chemical, biological, indeed, as...
WILLIAM S. COHEN The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A Nazi initiation into the upper reaches of the SS was to gouge out the eye of a pet cat after feedi...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want...
WILLIAM S. WILSON When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. A...
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