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The Mikado
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"The Mikado" Quotes

A comedic operetta set in Japan, following a wandering minstrel who falls in love with the ward of the Lord High Executioner.

Quotes

Let the punishment fit the crime.

W.S. Gilbert

justice

I've got a little list, I've got a little list.

W.S. Gilbert

humor

A wandering minstrel I, A thing of shreds and patches.

W.S. Gilbert

identity

The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, breathe promise of merry sunshine.

W.S. Gilbert

nature

The law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent.

W.S. Gilbert

law

For he's gone and married Yum-Yum, Yum-Yum, Your anger pray bury.

W.S. Gilbert

love

The supposition that I could have married Katisha at all, will be seen to be entirely absurd.

W.S. Gilbert

marriage

I am so proud, If I allowed My family pride to be my guide, I'd volunteer to quit this sphere, And seek that tomb I mentioned ere.

W.S. Gilbert

pride

Young man, despair, Likewise go on, and curse your luckless fate, That all your days you'll have to mate With ugly girls.

W.S. Gilbert

beauty

There is beauty in extreme old age.

W.S. Gilbert

beauty