Occupation: Dramatist Birth: November 18, 1836 Death: May 29, 1911
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody..
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well..
Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound..
It's love that makes the world go round..
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….
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 ….
Life is a joke that's just begun..
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs..
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 ….
Man is nature's sole mistake..
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative..
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….
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….
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?.
Life's a pudding full of plums..
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….
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast..
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and ….
Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?.
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise..
In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!.