Quotes from Patience — W. S. Gilbert
1836–1911 England
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Art stopped short at the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.
Patience (1881)
I know what love is. There was a happy time when I didn't, but bitter experience has taught me.
Patience (1881)
A pallid and thin young man,
A haggard and lank young man,
A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery,
Foot-in-the-grave young man!
Patience (1881)
If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -
Take all the remarkable people in history,
Rattle them off to a popular tune!
Patience (1881)
Yes, I am the Apostle of Simplicity. I am called Archibald the All-Right, for I am infallible.
Patience (1881)
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen,
An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band,
If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.
Patience (1881)