William S Gilbert

Tweeting a quote from the Savoy operas roughly once a day. May RT others that people send me. I follow back when Twitter allows me to.

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

Loudly let the trumpet bray!
Tantantara!
Proudly bang the sounding brasses!
Tzing! Boom!
As upon its lordly way
This unique procession passes,
Tantantara! Tzing! Boom!
#iolanthe 1/x

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!
Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
Blow the trumpets, bang the brasses!
Tantantara! Tzing! Boom!
We are peers of highest station,
Paragons of legislation,
Pillars of the British nation!
Tantantara! Tzing! Boom!
#iolanthe 2/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

Loudly let the trumpet bray!
Tantantara!
Proudly bang the sounding brasses!
Tzing! Boom!
As upon its lordly way
This unique procession passes,
Tantantara! Tzing! Boom!
#iolanthe 1/x

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

Every day, as the days roll on,
Bridesmaids' garb we gaily don,
Sure that a maid so fairly famed
Can't long remain unclaimed.
Hour by hour and day by day,
Several months have passed away,
Though she's the fairest flower that blows,
No one has married Rose!
#ruddigore 2/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

Fair is Rose as bright May-day;
Soft is Rose as warm west-wind;
Sweet is Rose as new-mown hay –
Rose is queen of maiden-kind!
Rose, all glowing
With virgin blushes, say –
Is anybody going
To marry you to-day?
#ruddigore 1/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

The Prince of Monte Carlo,
Who is so very partickler,
Has heard that you're also
For ceremony a stickler –
Therefore he lets you know
By word of mouth auric'lar –
(That Prince of Monte Carlo
Who is so very particklar).
#grandduke 2/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

The Prince of Monte Carlo,
From Mediterranean water,
Has come here to bestow
On you his beautiful daughter.
They've paid off all they owe,
As every statesman oughter –
That Prince of Monte Carlo
And his be-eautiful daughter!
#grandduke 1/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

Braid the raven hair –
Weave the supple tress
Deck the maiden fair
In her loveliness –
Paint the pretty face –
Dye the coral lip –
Emphasize the grace
Of her ladyship!
Art and nature, thus allied,
Go to make a pretty bride.
#mikado

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

When first my old, old love I knew,
My bosom welled with joy;
My riches at her feet I threw –
I was a love-sick boy!
No terms seemed too extravagant
Upon her to employ –
I used to mope, and sigh, and pant,
Just like a love-sick boy!
Tink-a-Tank – Tink-a-Tank.
#trialbyjury

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

When you have nothing else to wear
But cloth of gold and satins rare,
For cloth of gold you cease to care –
Up goes the price of shoddy.

In short, whoever you may be,
To this conclusion you’ll agree,
When everyone is somebodee,
Then no one’s anybody!
#gondoliers 2/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

That King, although no one denies
His heart was of abnormal size,
Yet he’d have acted otherwise
If he had been acuter.
The end is easily foretold,
When every blessed thing you hold
Is made of silver, or of gold,
You long for simple pewter.
#gondoliers 1/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

There are one or two rules,
Half-a-dozen, maybe,
That all family fools,
Of whatever degree,
Must observe if they love their profession.
#yeomen 3/3

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,
If you listen to popular rumour;
From the morn to the night he's so joyous and bright,
And he bubbles with wit and good humour!
#yeomen 1/x

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

He's so quaint and so terse, both in prose and in verse;
Yet though people forgive his transgression,
There are one or two rules that all family fools
Must observe, if they love their profession.
#yeomen 2/x

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

Death to the invader!
Strike a deadly blow,
As an old Crusader
Struck his Paynim foe!
Let our martial thunder
Fill his soul with wonder,
Tear his ranks asunder,
Lay the tyrant low!
#princessida

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

I’m no saucy minx and giddy –
Hussies such as them abound –
But a clean and tidy widdy
Well be-known for miles around!

All the village now have mated,
All are happy as can be –
I to live alone am fated:
No one’s left to marry me!
#sorcerer 2/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

I rejoice that it’s decided,
Happy now will be his life,
For my father is provided
With a true and tender wife.

She will tend him, nurse him, mend him,
Air his linen, dry his tears;
Bless the thoughtful fates that send him
Such a wife to soothe his years!
#sorcerer 1/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

They're the pride of Utopia--
Cornucopia
Is each his mental fertility.
O they make no blunder,
And no wonder,
For they're triumphs of infallibility.
#utopia 2/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

O make way for the Wise Men!
They are the prizemen--
Double-first in the world's university!
For though lovely this island
(Which is my land),
She has no one to match them in her city.
#utopia 1/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

A commonplace young man,
A matter-of-fact young man,
A steady and stolid-y, jolly Bank-holiday,
Every-day young man!
#patuence 2/2

[William S Gilbert @wsgilbert1836]

Conceive me, if you can,
An every-day young man:
A commonplace type,
With a stick and a pipe,
And a half-bred black-and-tan;
Who thinks suburban “hops”
More fun than “Monday Pops”,
Who’s fond of his dinner,
And doesn’t get thinner
On bottled beer and chops.
#patience 1/2