William Schwenck Gilbert

William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911) was a barrister, notable as a play-writer and as the author of the librettos of a series of well-known popular comic operas set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Her taste exact

For faultless fact
Amounts to a disease.
- The Mikado

• I've got a little list - I've got a little list.

Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed - who never would be missed.
- The Mikado

• It's love that makes the world go round!

- Iolanthe

• I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

- Iolanthe

• The policeman's lot is not a happy one.

- Pirates of Penzance

• Stock close to your desks and never go to sea,

And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee!
- H M S Pinafore

Ramakrishna Paramhans