William Gilbert’s Death – Cause and Date

The playwright William Gilbert died at the age of 74. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Famed dramatist and librettist whose comic operettas with composer Arthur Sullivan include The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance. As a playwright of non-musical works, he is known for Pygmalion and Galatea, The Wicked World, and Broken Hearts.

He and his three younger sisters were the children of William and Anne Gilbert. Following a relationship with writer Annie Thomas, W.S. Gilbert married Lucy Agnes Turner in 1867.

Quotes

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Man is nature’s sole mistake.

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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you’re bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven’t a chance.

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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he’s a dirty little beast.

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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

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You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.