70 ordspråk av William S. Gilbert
William S. Gilbert
William S. Gilbert föddes den November 18th 1836 och dog den 29 May 1911
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 Funny without being vulgar. |
| He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman! |
| He led his regiment from behind - / He found it less exciting. |
| He uses language that would make your hair curl. |
| Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials. |
| Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse. |
| I am the very model of a modern Major-General. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can --
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! |
| 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! |
| I was a pale young curate then. |
| I'm a greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man! |
| I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why. |
| 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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