William Gilbert
William Gilbert
Famed dramatist and librettist whose comic operettas with composer Arthur Sullivan include The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance. As a playwright of non-musical works, he is known for Pygmalion and Galatea, The Wicked World, and Broken Hearts.
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth18 November 1836
greatly himself
He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!
manners morals
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
war house peers
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
fashion drug abuse
Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
ideas inferiority littles
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
sea fishing rivers
I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.