70 ordspråk av William S. Gilbert
William S. Gilbert
Funny without being vulgar.
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He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!
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He led his regiment from behind - / He found it less exciting.
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He uses language that would make your hair curl.
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Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.
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Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can --
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
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I often think it's comical / How Nature always does contrive / That every boy and every gal, / That's born into the world alive, / Is either a little Liberal, / Or else a little Conservative!
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I was a pale young curate then.
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I'm a greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man!
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I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
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I've got to take under my wing, / Tra la, / A most unattractive old thing, / Tra la, / With a caricature of a face.
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