The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
W. S. Gilbert
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
W. S. Gilbert
In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he found it less exciting.
W. S. Gilbert
Things are seldom what they seem.
W. S. Gilbert
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.