W. S. Gilbert

Quote link. Other quotes about: world wish: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art: "Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "My object all sublime I shall achieve in time..."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think little: "No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast."
Quote link.: "Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream."
Quote link.: "When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody."