Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by William Gilbert

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British composer William Gilbert.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. The popularity of these works was supported for over a century by year-round performances of them, in Britain and abroad, by the repertory company that Gilbert, Sullivan and their producer Richard D'Oyly Carte founded, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. These Savoy operas are still frequently performed in the English-speaking world and beyond.

British - Composer | November 18, 1836 - May 29, 1911

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

William Gilbert

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

William Gilbert

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

William Gilbert

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

William Gilbert

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

William Gilbert

Philosophy is for the few.

William Gilbert

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

William Gilbert

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

William Gilbert

Man is nature's sole mistake.

William Gilbert

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

William Gilbert

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

William Gilbert

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

William Gilbert

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

William Gilbert

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

William Gilbert

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

William Gilbert

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

William Gilbert

A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.

William Gilbert