Quote #15
The House of Peers, thoughout the war Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
More from W. S. Gilbert
- The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the Law.
- She may very well pass for forty three In the dusk with the light behind her.
- The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this and every country but his own.
- Art stopped short at the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.
- It's a bad old world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical productions.
- Yes, I am the Apostle of Simplicity. I am called Archibald the All-Right, for I am infallible.
- Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
- I know what love is. There was a happy time when I didn't, but bitter experience has taught me.