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!
thinking voted
And I always voted at my party's call,And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
manners morals
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
blow wish world
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.
war house peers
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
life stars moon
A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.
fashion drug abuse
Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
names grew observation
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
philosophy
Philosophy is for the few.
science soul body
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.
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.