Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns..

Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?.

Life is a joke that's just begun..

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise..

I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly….

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and ….

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!.

Man is nature's sole mistake..

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble….

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs..

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?.

Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick, but water's thin In for a penny, in for a pound It's Love that ….

As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim mi….

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the pu….

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast..

Life's a pudding full of plums..

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative..

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that ….

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a thing o….

When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em ….

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances..