"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.
plays | 64 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Let the punishment fit the crime.
I've got a little list, I've got a little list.
A wandering minstrel I, A thing of shreds and patches.
The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, breathe promise of merry sunshine.
The law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent.
For he's gone and married Yum-Yum, Yum-Yum, Your anger pray bury.
The supposition that I could have married Katisha at all, will be seen to be entirely absurd.
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.
Young man, despair, Likewise go on, and curse your luckless fate, That all your days you'll have to mate With ugly girls.
There is beauty in extreme old age.





