Here
is a list of the quotes we have used in this web-site. It may not be
complete, we may have missed the odd one, - or correct (there are two or three deliberate mistakes!)
check it! (There certainly are many more quotes available!). W S Gilbert is reputed to
be possibly the most quoted writer outside Shakespeare. We've definitely had
fun! Hope you do too . . .
Tell
us, Tell Us All About It . . . The
Gondoliers
If You Want to Know
Who
we Are! The Mikado
When Britain Really Ruled the
Waves! Iolanthe
If You Want to Know Who We Are!
The Mikado
Never
Mind the Why & Wherefore! HMS
Pinafore
"I
can trace my ancestry
back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."!
The Mikado
I Have a Song to Sing O!
Yeomen of the Guard
But Youth, of course, Must Have
its Fling The Mikado
Were I Thy Bride . . .!
Yeomen of the Guard
For
the Merriest
Fellows! are We! The Gondoliers
Promise
of
Merry Sunshine ! The Mikado
Of Beauty I'm a Judge .
. .! Trial by Jury
He is an Englishman!
HMS Pinafore
'Tis but a Little Word
- "Heighho!" Yeomen of the Guard
Try We
Lifelong . . .! The Gondoliers
Experiment in the art of merriment!
Yeomen of the Guard
When
I First Put this Uniform On! Patience
Here’s a how de do! The Mikado
Merry Sunshine! The Mikado
Sing Hoity, Toity . . .!
Princess Ida
Heavens, What is there to adulate in me? Patience
A Source
of Innocent Merriment!
The Mikado
Blooming
Flowers! The Mikado
The flowers that bloom in the Spring!
The Mikado
I Know my Notes, I Count Each Bar
. . .! (Whoops!) Cox & Box
Thou the Singer; I the Song!
Iolanthe
This the
Autumn of
Our Lives Yeomen of the Guard
Bow Thy Head to Destiny . . .!
Iolanthe
Replying
We Sing As - One
Individual . . .! The Gondoliers
Away We Go To a Balmy Isle . . .!
The Gondoliers
Let All Your Doubts Take Wing . .
.! Utopia Limited
Tantantara!
Tzing! Boom! . . .! Iolanthe
Take Any Heart - Take Mine . . .!
The Pirates of Penzance
Toffee In Moderation Is a Capital
Thing . . .! Patience
Long Day
Closes Whoops! (A Sullivan Part Song)
Tripping
Hither, Tripping Thither . . . ! Iolanthe
Of Ballads, Songs and Snatches, and
Dreamy Lullaby . . .!The Mikado
,
But He's Timid as a Youth Can Be . . .! Ruddigore
It's
the Song of a Merryman, Moping, Mum . . .! Yeomen of the Guard
Let's Away - Our Island Crown Awaits Me . . .!
And
I'm a Peppery Kind of King . . .! Princess IdaThe Gondoliers
We
Are Warriors Three . . .! Princess Ida
The Coming By-And-By . . .! Patience
Nothing Whatever To Grumble At . . .! Princess Ida
They got him on the
list . . .! The Mikado
Our
Revels Now Are Ended . . .! Whoops!
(Shakespeare: The Tempest)
Is
Life a Boon . . .! Yeomen of the Guard This
quote was submitted by W S Gilbert for Arthur Sullivan's Memorial in the
Embankment Gardens, London.
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