W. S. Gilbert quotes (6):

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...

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.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

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