I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
W.S. GilbertTags: life reality injustice justice theater acting
Sing 'Hey to you — good-day to you' —
Sing 'Bah to you — ha! ha! to you' —
Sing 'Booh to you — pooh, pooh to you' —
And that's what you should say!
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
Tags: execution
When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.
W.S. GilbertGilbert's response to being told they (the words 'ruddy' and 'bloody') meant the same thing was: "Not at all, for that would mean that if I said that I admired your ruddy countenance, which I do, I would be saying that I liked your bloody cheek, which I don't.
W.S. GilbertIt's love that makes the world go round.
W.S. GilbertAnd the next day the gondolier came with a train of other gondoliers, all decked in their holiday garb, and on his gondola sat Angela, happy, and blushing at her happiness. Then he and she entered the house in which I dwelt, and came into my room (and it was strange indeed, after so many years of inversion, to see her with her head above her feet!), and then she wished me happiness and a speedy restoration to good health (which could never be); and I in broken words and with tears in my eyes, gave her the little silver crucifix that had stood by my bed or my table for so many years. And Angela took it reverently, and crossed herself, and kissed it, and so departed with her delighted husband.
And as I heard the song of the gondoliers as they went their way--the song dying away in the distance as the shadows of the sundown closed around me--I felt that they were singing the requiem of the only love that had ever entered my heart.
Tags: sad william-schwenk-gilbert
Crushed again!
W.S. GilbertMerely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
W.S. GilbertLet the punishment fit the crime.
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