Famous quotes containing the words english and/or lyric:
“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)
“There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitchings of a mean merrymaker.”
—Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)