I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
Man is nature's sole mistake.
I am the very model of a modern major general
I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!