70 ordspråk av William S. Gilbert

William S. Gilbert

William S. Gilbert

William S. Gilbert föddes den 18 november 1836 och dog den 29 maj 1911
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Vid en middag beror det inte så mycket på vad som står på bordet, utan vilka som sitter på stolarna.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.

A nice dilemma we have here,
That calls for all our wit.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Such a bright little, tight little, / Slight little, light little, / Trim little, prim little craft!

When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, / I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

One cannot eat breakfast all day,
Nor is it the act of a sinner,
When breakfast is taken away,
To turn his attention to dinner;
And it's not in the range of belief,
To look upon him as a glutton,
Who, when he is tired of beef,
Determines to tackle the mutton.

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long,
When all goes right and nothing goes wrong,
And isn't your life extremely flat,
When you've nothing whatever to grumble at?

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.

We are not shy; / We're very wide awake, / The moon and I!

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular and well foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise.

An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

Politics we bar, / They are not our bent: / On the whole we are / Not intelligent.

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