Quotations
- "Ah, by Bacchus, with this aria I shall receive universal applause. People will say to me, “Bravo maestro!”
- I, in a very modest manner, shall walk about with bowed head; I’ll have rave reviews…I can become immortal…
- My mind is vast, my genius swift...
- And at composing, a thunderbolt am I."
- (From a poem composed by 14-year-old Gaetano Donizetti)
- "Donizetti, when asked which of his own operas he thought the best, spontaneously replied, 'How can I say which? A father always has a preference for a crippled child, and I have so many.'" (Louis Engel: "From Mozart to Mario", 1886)
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Famous quotes containing the word quotations:
“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)