When your process of extermination begins, let our deaths be as swift and painless as you can conveniently make them. The Pirates of Penzance (1879)
The daughters of Major-General Stanley, explaining to him the context of declaration of marriage by the various members of the pirate band. The Pirates of Penzance (1879)
No, Frederic, it cannot be. I don’t think much of our profession, but, contrasted with respectability, it is comparatively honest. The Pirates of Penzance (1879)
The last three ships we took proved to be manned entirely by orphans, and so we had to let them go. One would think that Great Britain’s mercantile navy was recruited solely from her orphan asylums – which we know is not the case. The Pirates of Penzance (1879)