Quote #23

Oh! my name is John Wellington Wells, I'm a dealer in magic and spells, In blessings and curses And ever-filled purses, In prophecies, witches, and knells. If you want a proud foe to 'make tracks'-- If you'd melt a rich uncle in wax-- You've but to look in On our resident Djinn, Number seventy, Simmery Axe!

More from W. S. Gilbert

  1. When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
  2. Either you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you.
  3. ...a Man, however well-behav'd, At best is only a monkey shav'd!
  4. Humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
  5. I can tell a woman's age in half a minute -- and I do!
  6. I suppose he expected to see me kissing all the carpenters
  7. I know what love is. There was a happy time when I didn't, but bitter experience has taught me.
  8. No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have--and I think he is a dirty little beast.

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